The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1875, Page 8

a nm ln a a a ¢ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On & after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be | sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yonx | Henax. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be. property { sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—-RUE SCRIBE. Sutscriptions and advertiseraents will be received ond forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME X AMUSEMENTS TO-MORR BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, gue avenue.—VAKILTY, at 5 P.M; closes at Mst5 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 88 Broadway.—FEMALE BATHJERS, at &Y. M. ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth street.—VAKIETY, at <P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street ana’ f\ixth avenne.— MAUBEIU, av 5P.M.; closes at I P.M. Miss Clara Morris. 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QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1875, THEATRE. ay-—THE BI@ BO. | with northorest winds, From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cool and doudy, and with clear wreather later. Want Street Yesterpay.—Prices in gs stock market were lower, and the market ended feverishly. Gold sold at 116 a 115}. | Money was easy. Tar Natto~an Banx at Rio Janeiro bas sus- pended, but confidence has been restored by the action of the government, which author- ized the issue of a large sum to relieve the crisis, and the assistance given at once by the Bank of Brazil. | Ressia, disappointed by the refusal of Eng- and to take part in the St. Petersburg Con- ference, is endeavoring to give more authority to the Brussels declaration by negotiating sep- arately with the great Powers. It is not likely that distinct negotiations will succeed where a royal caucus failed. Tur Revoucrion my Haytt.—'The rise and fall of the Haytian revolution have been aol- ready described in our cable despatches, and we give to-day the full details in an interest- ing letter trom our correspondent at Port an | Prince, with biographical sketches of the principal leaders. Tar Frexcn Drama.—The condition of the French theatres, the new plays that have | heen produced, the interference of the gov- emmment with ‘Cromwell,’ a new five-act | drama, and Rubinstein’s new opera, form | the topics of an entertaining letter from our | Paris correspondent. Bosrwess Activrry.—The Henan presents sixty-four columns of advertising to-day—an amount which is unprecedented at so late a | period of the spring. It is, no doabt, to some extent, due to the inactivity which the long winter compelled, but it is also an evi- | dence of the healthy condition of business, on | which we congratulate the community. Two on Tanre Weems Aco there was an epidemic of suicides, and now there is a vendency among people to get rm over by milroad trains. These coincidences are some- | limes very singular. Suicide, we know, obeys ixed laws, and its statistics enable the scien- tists to predict the number and kind that will oceur with almost as much accuracy as Old Probabilities prophesies rain or clear weatber. A Pansorarae Aprrsarrp in yesterday's papers that no doubt was welcome to a large sody of deserving people in this city: — “The Comptroller will pay the salaries of the | whool teachers this morning at his office.” Yesterday was the middle of the month. The wolaries of the school teachers were dune on the first day of the month and the money was in the treasury to pay them. If the business of the Finance Department was efficiently tonducted these tenchers, males wud feranles, who are not over-!/‘erally remunerated for their labors, and to whom a single day's un- necessary detention of their money is a serious inconveaoience, would have been paid on the the 2d or 3d of the month at the latest. But Mr. Green keeps firemen, school teachers, | tlerks and scrubwomen out of their money two weeks, while he ix quarretling with the | indications int to a fruitful and sugny | | Lies At home teeling without which no city ever | | had failed in its work, that it had moved | | been a story of hardship and disaster. one time it was feared that the jrost had fallen | doubts whether he will go to the Adirondacks | journed, and , comforts of well-ordered houses, to be lost in | mourn the oak-lined walks of Frankfort and | we shall probably have rapid transit if we can | no matter how rich he becomes, nor how | stowed away among the woollen stockings | | no anthem more fervently than that which | tells of home, sweet hore. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1875.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. Spring at Last. Spring has come at last, tardy but welcome. We have probably had no season that came so reluctantly, for a century at least. All the period, and we rejoice in the opportunity of | seeing the green fields and blossoming trees. | It seemed at one time as if Nature had quite | forgotten her mission, as if we were to have | an Arctic period of barrenness and wintry weather, and curious people wha look at events with exalted imaginations feared that Providence had selected the centennial year | for some extraordinary manifestation of His | power. There wasa rumor that the Gulf Stream off from our temperate shores, and that we | were to pass into the condition of Greenland and Nova Zembla, while the far North lands of the midnight sun were to blossom with warmth and vegetation. There came strange | stories of ice formations on the ocean, and | every logbook of those winter voyages has At upon the wheat and corn and cotton, and that the seasou of cold and depression and | panic was about to become a season of bar- renness and want. But we are now in easier and gentler times. At last the soft winds come from the South, and bring with them sunshine and desire. | We are all preparing for the hegira. People who have had anxious, weary hours, begin to study summer resorts, and to wonder whether they need mountain or sea air. Brown or Long Branch, while Jones thinks of Colorado and the majestic ranges, and of opportunities to shoot the antelope and the buffalo. Robinson yearns for the boulevards, and reads with a tremor of ships going down at sea or breake | ing to pieces on the Scilly Islands. Miss j Flora McFlimsey is dissatisfied with her fifty | dresses, and is impatient tor the magazines | and bazaars of Paris. The theatres begin to | drag and to exhaust the spent energies of the | season on benefits, The tragedians and high | comedians are preparing for the long summér rest, and our stage will be largely given to dances and Irish comedy. Congress has ad- the politicians are in a state of hibernation, to come out into the sunshine and play what pranks they choose next December. New York is on the | verge of the season of rhetorical newspapers and evening concerts in tbe open air. All the | best people think of going away, although if people really spoke their mind, without caring | for the opinions of next door or over the way, they would confess that New York, after all, is as pleasant in the summer days as the sea- shore or mountain. ‘Take the Battery, for instance, and Astoria, and Spuyten Duyvil, and Harlem, and Brooklyn Heights, and Bay Ridge. What city in the world bas such op- portunities for fresh air and fine scenery, water, sunshine and sky? Where is the city which fronts so directly on the open Atlantic sea, and where the weary saunterer may in- hale the breezes fresh trom Spain? But we throw these all behind us, together with the the wilderness of Saratoga or the wastes of Long Branch and Atlantic City. After all, for a city so much under a cloud and so often abused as New York, she has many charms. New York has been called | the unloved city. Take any strange group of talking citizens and test their affections. One will speak of the intellectual comfort he tound in Boston and mourn that he has no Bunker Hill. Another will dwell with rap- ture upon placid and pastoral Philadelphia, with its terrapin, its straight avenues and its small houses tor the poor. Another will in- sist that the sun never shone so brightly as on sweet Dublin city, while the fourth will the beer gardens of Vienna. But who has a word for poor New York? Who speaks with affection of Mannahatta? New York is a good place in which to save money and spend it. We have some fine stores, a large number of indifferent and expensive hotels, Central Park, | Comptroller Green and the Beecher trial; and frighten the Albany thieves. But how tew of us, comparatively, consider New York as a bong», én the warm, personal, domestic sense! There are probably a balf million of people in | this metropolis who look forward to old age and the serene peace of declining days and the absolute peace at last in other places, and who would view the prospect of living and dying here as an exile. This may result | from many causes. We are acity of carpet- baggers in one respect, and the carpet-bagger, firmly grounded in his new abode, never thinks without affection of his old home and the trusty satchel which accompanied him in his first errand into the world. There is a sentiment about the old bag, its shining tacks and homely leather trappings, and the little Testament which fond, weeping eyes sadly and castile soap, which no Saratoga truok | ever possessed, were a thousand of them stored in the loftiest mansion on Broadway. So the most sincere and hearty gatherings we have are onr New England and St. Patrick and St. Andrew sovieties. New York is never so interesting as on the occasion of the carpet. | bag gatherings, celebrating in music and wine the country they left behind them, and singing We suppose we shall outgrow this in time We can hardly expect real affection tor a city before the second generation. We are not a city in the highest sense, only an accumula- tion of people who have hurried hither to make their fortunes and go home again. Our growth has been sudden and plunging, We have leaped into metropoliten greatness in- stead of growing with the slow, steady, natural onteoming of life from life, like the branches from the roots, which we see in the great cities of Enrope. Consequently we have treated New York very ronch as the sojourner treats bis hotel, caring nothing for the house or the owner, so long as he has board and lodging. The result is that the hotel has fallen inte a bod way—into the hands of the ‘T weeds and others, who robbed the house as well as the gnesta, Every year destroys this | wpathy. We may not love New York as we do Salem, or Wilmington, ot Mayence, or Mollingar; but our children will. To them it will be the home of childhood and school days, Mayor about sending » messenger to the Hae | early effort aud manly achievement. To them eyntive chamber for the completed warrants. | every stone will be a icmory and every epize | ‘all races, all nations will find protection and | | boulevards, when the open wastes and spaces | we now believe that the people of New York | | disposal. will be wreathed in some dreamy remem- brance of infancy. Here will rest the ashes of those nearest and dearest to them. So in time we shall see grow up that public spirit, | that love of the city and its institutions, that | achieves the full measure of greatness, that | love of liberty which we note in the old guilds | of London and which even to-day hold an | independence of their own apart from the sov- | ereignty of the State. Then we shall become | proud of New York and rejoice in its enter- prise, its growth and its renown. Then we | shall feel that we owe the franchise the same fealty we owe to our business and our per- sonal honor, and strike down the thieves and seamps who claim office. Then we sball glory in every new building which adds to the beauty and grandeur otf the city, in every park and highway, in every bridge that spans our rivers and in every line of railway which binds us to the great States of the East and South and West. Then New York will no longer be called the city which no one loves. It will be the city of harmony, toleration, public spirit and independence. Within its walls all creeds, opportunity. The Pope has given us a Cardi- | nal to show that even the eye of infallibility | has not failed to discern our coming great- | ness. ‘The great artists of the lyric and | dramatic stage feel that they have not won | success until they have received (he approba- | tion of New York. Our newspapers are eagerly pressing oa in the race for influence i and power. Our. churches emulate one | another in the grandeur with which they sur- round the worship of God. On one side ot Fifth avenue we have the finest Presbyterian church in the country, on the other side the Gothic | naves and arches of the Cathedral slowly take | shape. There is no reason why we should not continue adding decoration after decora- | tion, until New York from Harlem River to the Battery will recall all that has been written of the glory of Thebes and Babylon. These are the thoughts that come to ns as we dwell | upon the changing season and see the busy preparations for a summer flight. The day will come when thousands will visit New York because of its splendor and comfort, just as they now go to Paris on the same errand ; when our avenues will be as attractive as the beyond the Park will become as beautiful as the avenues that radiate from the Arch of Triumph. Give us an honest measure of rapid transit and this would be the beginning. It we can only feel that our legislators will | do so we shall feel that the hord winter, with | its manifold cares and distresses, has brought | in its train a great blessing. The Governor Rapia Transit. The object of the opponents of rapid transit in New York is to defeat this impor- | tant measure while seeming to sustainit. They | took up the Common Council bill and barna- cled it with amendments intended to cre dissension between the Senate and the Assem- bly. This scheme partly succeeded, yet the bill is now in the Governor's hands and only needs his signature to become a law. The Husted bili meets his approval, and his influence and the energy of tis friends will probably obtain its passage. There is good authority for the statement that the provision which gives the Governor the appointment of the Commissioners was inserted without his knowledge, and that he has no wish to claim that patronage. This relieves the Gov- ernor from the suspicion that he favors the Husted bill because it gives to him, instead of the Mayor, the appointment of the Commis- | sioners, and our Albany despatches affirm that | | } he desires rapid transit for New York in a | shape to which legal objections cannot be made, and that he is indifferent as to the patronage which it necessarily involves. We are glad to know that Governor Tilden has virtually given this assurance, which ought to insure the passage uf a rapid transit act this | session. The fact that he holds one bill | makes him, not the Legislature, the master of the situation. If the Husted bill is passed will be perfectly content if he prefers to | make it the law. The people appreciate the | value of this measure, and we trust that the | Legislature will give it carnest attention, Pass it, gentlemen of the Legislature, and let | the Governor choose between the two. But at the same time it should be nnder- stood that if that bill foils the fate | of rapit transit is at the Governor's | The amended Common Council bili, with all its faults, would be accepted by | New York in preference to the absolute | failnre of the whole matter, and while a choice | between two measures is frankly conceded to Governor Tilden the people are not willing to admit that he can justly choose between | the partial success of rapid transit and its | utter ruin. North Carolinu the Centennial, | The letter from Governor Brogden, of North Carolina, in reference to the Centen- nial, is an eloquent and patriotic expression of interest in this national movement. There | has always been a fear on the part of those | who are managing this affair that the old war | feelings would break out into new antago- nisms. and lead to an absence of the Southern States from the Exhibition. We can under- | stand how there are many hot-headed and acrid spirits in the Sonth who remember nothing of the war but its animosities, and | who live for nothing but revenge. (Governor | Brogden’s letter is » rebuke to this class. North Carolina is a noble and honored State, Her history goes back to the times of the Revolution. Before the war her people were | cons » and warmly attached to the | Union. Even during the war this attach- ment never fully died out. She would be | peculiarly weleome at the Centennial. Ciov- emor Brogden appropriately regards the | Centennial as “the greatest event in the his- tory of peace and friendship that has ever oecarred in our national history,” and we unite with him in the hope that it will exer- | most favorable and beneficial in- effect union aud harmony.” vise flnence and in promoting concord, Trave.. The avnual travel of Americans to Europe is the subject of a notable statistical article elsewhere. The fate cf the Schiiler did not deter two thousand five hundred people from leaving this port yesterday, ond it is estimated that over four thousaad pereons sailed during the week. H ScwMrr | | of The Yachting Season. With the advent of May and the mildness peculiar to her reign there is a general long- ing of our citizens to “snuff the morning air’’ away from dusty thoroughfares. The spring is the more welcome to the lovers of outdoor sports because it has been so long delayed, and they everywhere evince unwonted activity. Blue skies, green fields and bright waters assure the lovers of all athletic sports that the season of their discontent is ended. In no other branch of summer amusement is there more energy shown than in yachting. For a month or two the aquatic gentlemen have been preparing for a brilliant campaign. It is the season for overhauling their craft and applying the scraper and paint brush. During this time matters are generally in a chaotic state. New yachts make their appearance, gnd new sails, masts, rig- ging and appointments transtorm the weather- beaten boat of last year into a neat, trim wes- sel. But the last week of this month gen- erally finds everything in shipshape order, and our bay and harbor are dotted with taut- looking craft under clouds of canvas, their owners testing them in various ways, that they may be tully prepared for the grand club events that take place in the month of June. The prospects thus far fora brilliant season are excellent. The ambitious Williamsburg Yacht Club will begin on the 8th of next month, and, as usual, will, no doubt, have a pleasant time, Then the Corinthian Cup, for sloops of the Seawanhaka Club, which is the first important event, will be sailed for over the New York Club course. The 15th of June has been selected for this contest, and as each yacht is required to be sailed by genuine ama- teurg it must produce great excitement. Two days thereafter the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club will take place. This aquatic reunion, it is anticipated, will be fully equal to that of any previous race over the same coarse, as greater interest was never manifested in the continued prosperity of the club. Duriog the past winter more members have been added to the roll than during any like period. A summer club house on Staten Island has been started, but somebody who does not care for yachts and yachting has taken legal steps to stop the work. The sus- pension will be, however, temporary. The new régime under which the New York Yacht Club starts the year promises exceedmgly well. Commodore Kingsland, Vice Commo- dore Garner and Rear Commodore Kane are | gentlemen of great nautical experience and enthusiastic and liberal yachtsmen, each hay- ing the progress of the club dear at heart. A very large sum has been set aside to defray the expenses of the coming regatta, and should there be a cracking breeze to drive with swell- ing canvas and quivering spars the pride of our yachting architecture, as was the case last year, the occasion will long be remem- bered. That was a pertect regatta. Each yacht did nobly and bravely endured all the punish- ment Old Neptune inflicted. The regatta day of the New York Club, however, may be put forward a week, as the centennial anniver- sary of Bunker Hill and the sixth day of the races at Jerome Park occur on the 17th of June. To avoid conflicting with these im- portant events many of the members propose | Thursday, the 24th of the month, as regatta day, and, no doubt, the change will take place. On Saturday, June 19, the Brooklyn Yacht Clob will hold its annual regatta, and will certainly have a grand representation from its sixty or seventy vebsels. The usual course will be sailed over, and, if the Brooklyn | Club has anything like its customary luck, reunion will be one of the finest the year. The Atlantic Yacht Club regatta follows, on June 21. After the yearly contests matches will be in order and great the | preparations will be made for the summer cruises of the different clubs, which take place in the months of July and August, ‘Then there are severai challenge cups to be sailed for during the season by the New York yachts. Prominently among them is that won by the Magic from the Comet last year and since returned to the club, and the Brenton Reef Cup, also returned to the club and still remaining in its hands. The prob- ability of the English cutter Fiona crossing the waters to give the yachts of the New | York fleet aspin for the Queen's Cup ex- cites some interest; but as yet there has been no official notification received of such inten- tion. The New York Club has been invited to visit Cape May this summer, and if the in- vitation is accepted the club will proceed there in squadron, about July 10, and will sail races on both the 12th and 13th of that month for schooner and sloop prizes. A grand ball will also be given the members on the evening of the 13th. The Eastern yacht clubs are prospering finely, and will hold their annual regattas on sach days as not to conflict with the New York clubs. During the summer cruises the vessels of the former clubs will endeavor to meet the latterat Newport, when a grand com- | bination regatta for valuable prizes will take place. As there are thirty-six regularly organ- ized yacht clubs in the United States, having over seven hundred vessels enrolled on their several registers, the yachting outlook of the | year is very encouraging, and the season of 1875 will, in all probability, be one of the most brilliant on record. Pulpit Topics To-Ony. This is the feast of Whitsuntide, or Pente- cost, in which the Christian Church celebrates the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apos- tles in that upper room in Jerusalem more than eighteen centuries ago. That Pente- costal outpouring established a union be- tween heaven and earth, and formed a living bond between Christ and His Church which has never been severed from that day to this. Hence this event now commemorated will give tone to Dr. Thompson's theme to-day as he discusses the Holy Spint and the Divine life, and to Mr. Hepworth’s as he gives to his people some suggestions concerning regenera- tion, and to Mr. Lioyd’s as he discourses on the whole family in heaven and on earth who by this mmion through tle Holy Ghost are meade one with each other and one with Christ. his Pentecostal season will give point and pertineney to Mr. King’s remarks while he presents the wasted opportunities and mis- | spent time which is included and suggested by the theme “the winter is past.” It will add weight to Dr. Phillips’ story of mis- | sion life and mission work in the jungles of India, and it will suggest itself to Mr. Newton meer as one which science, in its biinduess, is warring. Mr. Hawthorne will show how futile is the devil’s protest against Christianity while the Christian maintains his partuership with God. Mr. Willis will encourage bis people not to reject Christ, but to take Him as a guest to their homes and hearts. Mr. Lightbourn will tell us what a Christian should be end how the rich may escape the snares that Satan sets forthem. Mr. Pullman will put forth his plea for certain castaways, and will show his flock the importance of training the young for nobleness of life and character. Mr. Saunders will explain the first resurrection. Mr. Hugo will plead for free schools in Amer- ica,and Mr, Alger will draw some lessons from the recent loss of the Schiller and its freight of human beings. Our Theatrical Season—The Lesson of the Benefits. Our readers have, no doubt, observed the great success that has attended the benefits given to some of our favorite actors at our leading theatres. Their receipts have far ex- ceeded those ever obtained by former theatri- cal entertainments. The reason is that the managers in arranging them contrive to pre- sent a large share of theatrical perfection. One of the mistakes of our theatres is that they do not present the majority of their plays with vitality or foree enough. A man- ager will present a good play witha company containing one or two good actors. ‘The piece will attract popular attention and run for one hundred or two hundred nights. The result of this is that our managers are congtantly on the alert for sensation, for great runs, and they rest their success upon one or two actors and one or two plays. Consequently at the end of along run there is a period of ex- | | haustion. was the attraction of a long and brillant | Mr. Boncicault’s “Shaughraun’’ season at Wallack’s. Since its close the theatre has simply retained its ordinary busi- ness, The reason of the great success of “The Shaughraun’’ was, first, that it was am exceedingly good play; second, that there were exceedingly good actors to play it. This is the reason of the success of these benefits. On a benefit night the manager presents what are considered unusual attractions, and, con- sequently, he has unusual success. The model theatre of the future will be that which produces every night the unusual at- tractiors which we find at benefits. If the appearance of three good actors on the stage will draw a crowded house on one night it will do so for a hundred nights. Instead of long runs, exhausting the players and the | play-going public, and, in time, driving the at- tention away from a bond fide theatre, it wonld be wise for our managers to begin their season by a strong company, alternating theie pieces as the musical man- agers do their operas. Instead = of “Henry V." for a hundred succeeding nights why not have added “King John” and “Macbeth” and ‘Othello’ and two or three Shakespearian parts played by the same com- pany and presented with the same wealth of decoration and scenery? The result would have been that, instead of Booth’s Theatre ex- hausting itself on one play and running into stars and all manner of make-sbitt entertain- ments for the balance of the season, we shoald | | have had a steady progress of success from The lesson of this demonstrates this. the beginning to the end. success of “Henry V.” | Mr. Boucicault once said that Shakespeare meant bankruptcy, but Shakespeare never yet bankrupted a manager who did not first bank- ropt Shakespeare. The trouble with Shake- spearian plays is, too frequently, thatthey are tumbied on the stage, badly mounted, simply to give an opportunity to one or two actors; for there is no writer that needs so many good actors to interpret his thoughts as Shakespeare. ‘Henry V.’’ illustrated this, and the success of that play was due to the fact that it was played up to its highest capacity, and presented an unusual wealth of decoration. Now and then an actor like Mr. Salvini will produce a wondrous effect in some one part like Othello, an effect depending solely upon the possession of exalted genius. But we only have men like Salvini once in o generation. We have had no such a man on the English stage since the day of the elder Kean. Our theatrical managers should, therefore, adopt the plan of Mr. Wallack in playing tne «“Shaughraun,” and of the managers of Booth’s Theatre in presenting ‘Henry V.” We are to have Mr. Berry Sullivan here in a few months—an actor who comes with a great reputation. It will bea mistake to play Mr. Sullivan in the old fashion through a series of Shakespearian parts badly supported and | badly mounted. Mr. Rignold, who is by no means as good an actor as Mr. Sullivan, has attained a success which the coming trage- dian may well covet, becanse he has been enabled to play Shakespeare in ® manner worthy of Shakespeare's genius. The lesson of the benefits is that if our theatrical managers will present attractions on the stage people will go to see them. Let us have a “benefit night’ every night. Mr. Wallack’s success in making his theatre the first in America, and among the first in the world, has been solely because he followed out this principle. If three or four attractive actors can put four thonsand dollars into a | house for » matinée there is no reason why, | by repeatin | seale and with the same cast, there should not the performances on the same be more money than any manager ever dreamed of during a well sustained season. Spirit of the Re ous Press. The Independent, referring to the bill now before this State's Legislature relating to condi- tional pardons, shows that by the constitution the Governor has now all the rights that are necessary or which this bill could give him, andthat the reimprisonment of any condi- tionally pardoned offender could not place him beyond the power of pardon, inasmuch as this power is left discretionary with the Goy- ernor except for treason and cases of impeach- ment. favorite with Sir Walter Scott, as a text to preach a sermon of trust in God and belief in the blissful hereatter to its doubting and dis- trusting adult leaders who may out of the mouth of babes and sucklings be taught praise. The Hebrew Leader opens a new volume this week with a choice supply of | | ers, but them in Germany the English and Amer. editorial and news matter interesting not only to its Jewish readers but to the general public © also, The Freeman's Journal ridicules Dr, | wagered that within a certai of the fundamental religious ideas with | McCosh’s idea of forming » pan-Presbytoriem confederation, and declares that any effort to unite two Presbyterian bodies results in making three, Disintegration, it adds, is the very genius of Presbyterianism. We be- lieve Dr. MeCosh admits that he has found about forty families bearing the Presbyterian name scattered throughout the world, each distinct from its fellows. % The Working Church insists on the freedom of the public schools from ecclesiastical re- straint and sectarian strifes. The Pilot (Bos- ton) analyzes the immigration reports for the last five years, both as to their numbers and the occupations and manner of life of the im- migrants, and it concludes that this is the land of wWorkingmen, the only civihzed country where the hard hand of the mechanic can lay down the tool to take up the sceptre, The lives of workingmen are the history of America, and we can tell the fate of the Re- public if we know the daily habits and thoughts of the people. It cautions against leaving the best part of a man’s nature behind in the rush und pressure of our modern civilization. The Christian Advocate gives utterance to the boldest words that have yet appeared on the public school question. It contends for the State's right and duty to sup- press all rival schools to those established by itself, and instead, therefore, of paying for Catholic parocbial schools the editor thinks it would be well to inquire whether the public welfare does not demand their discontinuance, The Evangelist and the Observer devote their editorial comments (to the dedication of Dr. Hall’s new church and the installation of Mr, ‘Tucker into the pastorate of the Madison square church, ‘The Baptist Weekly is at a loss which of the vecent ‘spectacular amuses ments” to admire most—that of the Caravan of Nations at the Hippodrome or ‘‘the gor- geous millinery and pantomime of the Cardi- nal’s enthronement’’ at the Cathedral ; but it is strongly in favor of such amusements for the multitude. ‘Tux Sciex Fravps.—We have given the statement of Mr. H. B. Claflin in respect to the silk frauds, and we present the denial of Collector Arthur of certain reports and the views of Mr. Ethan Allen on the repeal of the Moiety laws. Mr. Brecrer.—There is a report in ow columns to-day that Mr. Beecher intends, next September, to go to the Holy Land. We un- derstand this as an announcement that he intends to remain in Brooklyn. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tue St. Louls Times has been enlarged, A Masonic club ts to be blished in Londot, He has been to Poughkeepsie, bat why does he call himself a fence post ? The St. Louis Democrat has been consolidated with the Globe of that city. Rey. Dr. J. Newman, of Poultney, Vt., is reg- istered at the St, Nicbolas Hotel, Loita, the versatile actress, is smong the late arrivals at the Glenham Hotel. Paymaster George A. Lyon, United States Navy, ts quartered at the Sturtevant House, Some one pretends to have gathered 16,00¢ pounds of musket balls at Resaca, Ga, Queen Victoria has granted Lady Helps a pem sion of $1,000 a year out of tne Civil List. Captain Hains, of the steamship Scythia, nag taken up bis residence at the New York Hotel. Mr. Swinburne is engaged studying the old ballads preparatory to writing something about them. Professor M. B, Anderson, President of Rochester University, arrived last evening at the Everett House, Toast for @ Scotch festival (late In the even- | Ing) —“The ana o’ Burns, Osh Kosh (hot Scotcn).”” J. F. Mack, of the Sandusky Register, has been mentioned as the republican candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor of Ohio, The marble bust of Charles Sumner, ordered as apresent for George William Curtis, the orator, at a cost of $1,000, is on exhibition at Boston, At four o’cloek yesterday afternoon the condl- tion of General Breckinridge was apparently une changed, although he was thought to be slightiy weaker. A cabie telegram from Rome, under date of yes terday, 15tn inst., announces that His Eminence Cardinal Cullen has arrived tn the Eternal City from Dublin, Ireland. Generat O'Grady Maly was sworn in as Adminis» trator of the Dominion government at Otvaws yesterday, by Hon. Mr. Dorion and Judges San born and Lafontaine. Next week we shall begin to understand whether several witnesses in the Beecher case went through the cross-cxaminatious as success fully as they seemed to at the time. Ju Pierrepont, the new Attorney Generat, took charge of the office at Washington yesterday, and during the afternoon was called upon by th¢ various heads of bureaus and others. ‘The Vassar girls most be feeling pretty vigorous this spring. When one of them gets mad and kicks & fence post in the garden the shock knocks all the buds off the trees.—Brooklyn Argu: We are informed by cable telegram from Vienna, dated on the 15th inst., that His Excellency Hon, Godiove &. Orth, the new American Minister to the Court of Francis Joseph, has arrived in toe Austrian capital. ‘The President never removes 4 man while under fire. He picks out for removal those against ‘whom there is no suspicion. The secret of con- tinuing in oMice ts, therefore, to keep stealing an€@ consequentiy keep “ander fire.’ Certificates of passengers as to the sterling qualities of ships anda sailors are always good, bul the best one we have seen lately is that to thé Metropolis signed by “Mrs. Summers and infant’ and “Mrs, Ing and four children. Ornitho—Logic.—It all birds that sing are song- sters, then all birds that roost are roosters; hence, all hens are roosters.—Commercial Advertiser, Didn't you change your vowel in the last ciset All birds that roost are roasters. An instructor in the family of the English am- bassador at Rome was present at a ceremonyis the Vatican and remained seated while every one else knelt, He was consequently expelled by the guards, and the Ambassador dismissed him ‘rom his family. England will howl over this, perhaps, Acurious bet has been made by a well known pedestrian and guide of Pau and Nice, who las je he will cap- ture a living izard in the Py will bring 16 to Paris, conduct it through the Champs Elysées, and make it mount (he Arc do Triomphe withoat touching It with aswitch, The izard is the wiid- est. and most unapproachable animal found in the Pyrenees, It jomps from peak to peak at the greatest heights, and is rarely shot even at the longest range. The garden attached to Bismarck’s oficial rese idence ts overlooked by the adjoining houses, aaa the tenants, knowing the hours at whioh the The Christian Ieader takes the death | Chancelior—who, like all Prussians, lives wit of a child, a century ago, who was a great | cloek-like regularity—is in the habit of waiking im the garden with # view to resting his mind in the intervals of heavy work, have learned te make @ good thing out of their proxinuty by let tung out their Windows to admirers of the “Irom Prince,’ of sightseeing strangers, who come arme@ with immense binoculara and take out their money’s Worth in & good stare at the statesman, Of course English tourists are reported to be the most frequent customers and the boldest observ. icans are generaily coniounded. At any rate the staring nulsance seems ‘to have grown too muck | for the Chancetior,