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4 MOODY AND SANKET ————- _A Grand Christian Finale to the Ameri- can Revival Work in England. The Transatlantic Apostles Enjoying a Pulpit Rest. A Special Interview with Mr. Sankey, “The Sweet Singer of Chicago.” His Experience Among the Uncon- verted Britons. What He Accomplished in Switzerland and What He May Do in America. Loxpon, July 29, 1875. ‘The work of the American revivalists seoms ended in 'Engtand, not from any abatement in the general interest or Mack of auditors who flock to hear their novel and slashing dispensation of religions tonbons, but becanse they are | pted to return to their native land, where there is ‘go much serious need for everything in the way of reli- | gion that comes to hand. They fly over the ocean from all ‘the furor snd noise of poor souls clamaring to be saved, vamd there they hope to escape, fora time at least, the street singers and hand-organs who so indifferently ren- | der their salvation-inepiring hymna Bot their music ‘has preceded them, and they will find the fire which ‘they with their own bands kindled here pursuing them — * ‘to the Pacific Coast. The dangers of sensationalism are | \mot wholly understood by these energetic and sin- | jeero exhorters, Already, like the old Covenanters of ‘Beotland, they have to hide in the fastnesses of a great cityor steal away to the hills of Switzerland or Wales for oven a fewdiays’ rest. And they do not obtain it even | ‘there, Wakingorsleoping, their peace and their rest are alike destroyed by hearing barmaids, stable boys aud footmen singing, in all sorts of keys and metres:— | ‘There ts a*gate that stands ajar; ‘Walk in, walk right in. ie There is a gate that stands ajar; j ‘Walk in to the show. ‘The amount of emotion which can be worked up out f such an inspiring verse by Mr. Sankey, as may be ‘imagined, is very different from that which the un- (paroxysmal street Arab contrives to arouse. THE MEY FOR THE WORK. ‘Viewed tn this ight the revivalists desorve our sym- ‘pathy rather than our praise, and our sympathy they | shail have It is certain that if the popular theory _ that beaven ts a place to sit on a cloud and sing halle- | lujah be true, Messra, Moody and Sankey point the | T thought there to escape the harry and bustle of the world; but I was mistaken, entirely mistaken. For, ] you see, no sooner bad I reached my hotel in Berne than a crowd assembled in the street and began singing | ander my window the hymns which we have chanted ail | over the British Istea The dear music was like nitro- | glycerine in my soul, and I rushed to tho window and bowed my gratitude, Their singing sot me all aglow | with Christian fire. crowd of simple, common peo- | ple, oat in the darkness—for the night had fallen—sang | in their own tongue and cheered mo so loudly that T secured an interpreter and spoke a few words of plain, simple Christianity to them,” SONGS IN MANY EXYS | “Your songs havo gone all over Europe, have they not?” L asked, to keep the bail rolling. “They have béen translated into French, German, Gaelic and Swedish, Where the tranzlations will stop 1 do not know, I should like to see the pure and beauti- | | ful heathen of the Cannibal Islands chanting our hymns | | of peace instead of his war songs. And this may come; nothing is impossible with the Almighty. Oh, wouldn’s (bat be beatiful, my young sinner friend?” TORR VOR ALL THINGS. “It certainly would be quite unique,” I found the grace to say, “But, I almost forgot to tell you, I felt that my time for work was at hand. to bold @ meeting when I went to Switzerland; but could Tresiet? Notatall I announced that should hold a meeting at once—announced it before I had washed my face or taken off my hat And the word wont out broad, cast over all that city. A large church fas placed at my disposal, and was filled before I got to it Again I se cured an Interpreter, and spoke to the multitude, ‘not | as one having authority,’ but as a meek and humble servant of the Master whom I serve, Within five hours | of my arrival in Switzerland as @ haven of rest 1 found | myself working as hard as 1 have any day in the past two years in the Lord’s vineyard. I held anothér meot- ing during my stay, and it was as largely attended as the previous one, And, too, on my way back among the glaciers and atong the roads, I heard the hytans of praise” which we have sung into the hearts and souls of our English brethren.” JORT HOW IT HAPPENED. “How did you come to strike this Big Bonanza?” I asked, “What?” he asked, doubtingly—just as if I hadn’t as | good a right to uso little slang as he had; “I bardly understand you.’” “Was it an inspiration, this trip to England?” I asked, making my question more piain. “Not at all. We were invited to come over here by the Rev, Mr. Pennyfather and by Mr. Bainbridge, of New- | eastle-on-Tyne,” he replied, “but, strange to say, both these men were dead before we reached England. They were made the means in the hands of God in starting this work, and then they were taken away. We were left alone, and reached Kngland w find ourselves with- out friends and absolutely without a programme by which our work was to be begun or ended * A MOODY RETROSPECT, “How and where did you go to work ?”’ I asked, “We began at York. We had only one vague idea at Starting and that was to go northward. he utmost of our hopes was to spend three months in northern Eng- land and Scottand preaching, and then to return to Am- I did not expect to say a word or | surest and best means of getting there and of profitably | erica’ We began as two strange men in a strange land, occupying the tima There is “hell fre’? enough in | and for two weoks we found the people cool. None the preaching of Mr, Moody to make the most des- knew us and nobody had any confidence in us. ‘He Perate sinner relent, and there certainly is melody of conid not do mighty things in that place becanse of un- ‘the good old camp meeting order in the singing of Mr. | polief,’ as was said long ago. But we preached and | Sankey. Whether bis voice has the capacity of the | gung, and ‘blessings followed the preaching.’ Then wo ITALY AS IT IS, —_—_+—_—— THE PUBLIC INCONGRUITIES WHICH ARE PRE- SENTED IN THE UNITED NATION—THE ROYAL- TY, THE PAPACY AND THE PROPLE ENFOLDED YOR BETTER OR WORSH—GARIBALDI AND THR POPE—THE CONSEQUENCES OF THR FLOODS— CLERICAL GAINS AT MANY ELECTIONS. | Vamox, July 27, 1875. Only during the Parliamentary session does one reafize that Italy possesses capital and that Rome is tts recognized centre, ‘This statement would be unin- telligible to the Freneh and English mind, but quite comprehensive to Americans, for whom Washington takes the place of Rome for the Italians; Naples answer- ing to New York; Florence to Boston; Milan to Philadelphia, and 80 on to the end of the | chapter. No proclamation of unity, no unificae tion of political and administrative — legislation can destroy the traditional fact of seven | tea, with seven different capitals and tecal Interests; | wis thore any reason why such a tradition should be destre nor anything to be gained by increasing cen- | | tratization. On the contrary, without going the longth | | of the fuleralists who would remodel Italy on the Amer- | | joan and Swiss systems, we hold that the more liberty | of action, of administration, of local taxation and edu- | cation allowed to the provinces and communes the larger | will be the sum total of material, moral and intellectual | | prosperity to accrue to the nation at large, The bed of Procrustes is less adapted to Italians than to any other | nation in Europe, fora Sardinian or a Sicilian bears | less resemblance to a Milanese than a Milanese does to a | German, or a Genoese to an Englishman, or a Florentine toa Frenchman. And at the present moment Italy has resolved herself into her component parts, and, with the exception of afew common points of interest, the inhabitants of each State occupy themselves with the | affairs of neighboring States neither more nor less than with those of foreign countries. GARIBALDI AND PTO NONO. All the local papers give daily bulletins of Garibaldi and tho Pope, the latter occupying much, more space than the former, whose news is summed up in the fact that he goes every morning with his children to take the sulphur baths at Civita Vecchia, and that he finds them so efficacious in diminishing bis rheumatic pains that there:is no talk for the present of areturn to Ca- prera. The bill for the Tiber and Agro Romano opera- tions, passed by the House and Senate, sanctioned by tho King and published in the @azzeta Officiale (these op- erations to commence when the source whence the fands are to be derived is discovered), is shelved for the time, save that Filopante continues to lecture on the subject and the Opinione publishes from time to thne very valuable information and opinions on the causes of malari and their remedies. ‘CHE PRISONER OF THE VATICAN,’? That the Pope is a prisoner of Amtonelli and the ultramontane party, though not of Victor Emmanael, is | certain, longing for his favorite summer sojourn as Caste] Gondolfo, yet keeps up his spirits, and, by a curious coincidence, profits in health as much as does Garibaldi from the use of the same sulphurous waters, which are brought from Civita Vecchia, and ina bath ex- | pressly constructed His Holiness descends and is im- merged in the bulicame ‘Then, comforted by the broth of a capon and two fowls and a ginss of the choicest vin, he gives audiences innumorable—once, thirty in a day. mus JOKES, His bon mots are passed from lip to lip. The last—I give it on hearsay and assume no responsibility, if not genuine—reflects credit on its inventor, An- | “sacharine'? and ‘starch’? | inces, high © or not is immaterial to the great question at went to Sunderland, then to Newcastle, Carlisle, Edin- issue. I am ready to grant that if sinners are tobe | burgh, Glasgow, Dundes, Aberdeen, Inverness and literally hammered and sung into heaven these two ‘worthy gentlemen arethe men for my noney, now and all the time, about their religion, just as they may be about their ‘tooth brushes or parting their ta i Ge mi | Messrs. Moody and Sankey must not be wholly | surprised. All do not think alike regarding politics, | matrimony or snakes, and some latitude must also be | allowed in religion, BRINGING IT HOME TO THE MASSES. Tt bas been asserted by the ardent friends of the new crusade that religion should be brought home to the common people and that each man ina Vast audience should find in the preaching of a minister something | that touches some tender fancy in his heart. In other ‘words, the preacher who sees his corner groceryman in the congregation should say :— My dear friend, bad weeds grow apace, but it takes along time to rear a cabbage or squash. Thus the watered by his prayers, ‘tiais without hope? ‘The converted burglar, who cracked the poor man’s Savings bank, next catches the eye of the minister, and the discourse varies to suit the occasion :— ‘The kingdom of heaven ts taken by violence, and the ‘Violent take it by force, The kingdom of heaven, my friends, is like an iron safe full of precious jewela. You ‘wantthem. How can you get them? You take the large the “jimmy” ys hope; you “crack the become possessed of the pearl of great price which was locked therein. se Then the reformed prize fighter is seen and he “gets @shot”:— I shail not spar for wind any longer, but come to'the knock-down argument Are you going w be converted | ‘or must 1 punch your heads’ No dodging or you may | geta tap in the bread basket. Be steady; keep your belt and cups ont of pawn and the devil will never call “‘time’”’ on you when you can’t toe the scratet: , POUND AT LAST. But the work of Messrs. Moody and Sankey is before the world, and far be it from my purpose to suggest any- thing at this late day. is the gardener w do all Istarted out yesterday to seek Mr. Sankey, having | Jearned that his coworker, Mr. Moody, bad fled from London to a country seat in Wales, where his fame had not preceded him. There was no end of annoying ob- | stacles encountered in my search for the address of the “Sweet Singer of Chicago,” and it was not until I had enlisted one of the greatest of England’s preachers in my good work that I finally succeeded in obtaining the name of the locality in which my man was to be found. the utmost suspicion by the chief of a firm of book- sellers, who are publising the biographies and hymn. | | books of the evangelists, Whether this gentleman Teally knew the dwelling place of the saints or not or only said that he did, I cannot definitely settle, but an | hour's conversation resulted in his putting on avery | Knowing look and saying that he “would think the matter over and communicate with me ina few days.” | ‘This snggestion was so foreign to all American ideas of Journalism that I took my departure. MADE OUT 118 ADDRESS, After a day’s delay encountered in many directions I | {learned where Miss Sankey was residing and naturally (reasoned that she might be able to give me the address I sought. Calling upon her and putting on a very “gankey-monious” air, I learned that the second David would return from Switzerland this morning and i might be found at Kenyon House, Bedford Road, pi about ten o'clock. A PLEASANT ACQUAINTANCE. The hour found me at Kenyon House, and after Plying the heavy iron knocker right lustily I was ad® mitted to a charming drawing room, which looked out upon a garden of flowering plants and gravel walks, I bad not long to wait, for a large, broad-chested man of about thirty-five entered the room and I rose to greet the champion “‘singist”’ of Christendom. HOW HE LOOKS. Mr. Sankey has « face full of good nature and a | Mouth beaming with smiles, Long brown whiskers and aheavy mustache do much to obscure a healthy complexion, and hig eyes seem to be always singing the | hymns of the modern reformation. Father too slangy for a devout | fm it but candor aad conciseness, THE DIALOGUR, “Laman American, Mr. Sankey, and am anxious to know more about you and your work in England, began. “Will you enlighten mo?” “You are an American, I see it. If his specch is man there is nothing Tam drawn to. ‘ward you, my dear young man, because you are from | my own land,” he oxclaimed, impulsively. “Do be geated, Iam glad tosee you. There ie an air of the ‘Western hemisphere about yon. Well, I shall soon be ‘on my way back. We sail from Liverpool in the steam- ship Spain on Angust 8:— 0, I'm going home, Tm going home. NAPPY HOURS IN SWITZERLAND. “So 1 had heard and that is why | hastened to seq you,” I felt inapired to interrupt, “You have been on tho Continent?” | “Yes, you come in the nick of time I have only fast returned from Switzerland. Grand experience for | me there! Even there the Lord bas blessed our work. "Among the hills and valleys the peasants and the bur- @osses slike chant aur bwmns apd slammer our namon I had been rogarded with | through a large number of towns, till we reached John 0’ Groat’s, Then we returned to Greenock sailed to But if some people will be fastidious | Belfast, thence to Londonderry and on to Dublin. Then the Lord sent us back tw England—to Manchester, to Sheffield, to Birmingham, to Liverpool, to London! | You, doubtless, know the rest.” BOW THE MACHINE WAS RUN. “Where were your services held during this journey, in halts or in the open air }” “From the begianing we had admission to most of the | dissenting chapels. As the work progressed these be- }\ came too small, and the people in Scotland demanded the | use of the large edifices of the established churches. In Dublin, however, we were tendered the great Exhibi- | tion Palace, and had an audience of 20,000 people. Upon our return to England the established churches were in- sufficient for the multitudes that came, so that we had | totake the largest halls. In London even the halis of holding §,000 to 16,000 persons.” | ON THE FENCE. | How did the Church of England receive you?” T in. quired. of Canterbury was afrakt of the knocking down of old ideas. We did not come here to knock down, but to build up. The worthy Archbishop was afraid of any | gospel that did not come to him in a surplice and from the usual pulpit He has tried to keep on both sides, or, rather, to walk the fence. The trouble has been with ) the Established Church that !t has not commended itself to tho young men of the nation who have the brain power to make them useful to the Lord in whatever walk of life they may be placed. But, I can tell you,” Mr. Sankey exclaimed with gena- ine energy, ‘the red-hot enthusiasm of Moody has sot the young men of England on fire. The work has been driven into the home, into the fireside; and if we have accomplished nothing more than this we go back to America coutent and happy. But I hope that we have accomplished much more than this.” PINCHERKCK JEWELRY, “How do you take a rough diamond of a son! and con- vert it into a first water em in claw setting?” I asked, in an off-hand manner... | “That is Mr, Moody’s branch of the work so far as it | is human; but that is where you, in common with all sinners, make the fatal mistake. This work s not ours, | but of the Lord.” : “AN OPINION AS 18 ONK.’? “You are opposed, then, to being understood as ven ders of a patent-medicine religion ?” said 1. “We certainly ara. Some poople who are bumming | around themselves have the impression that we are | making money out of this work. Others think that we are not in earnest, and that Mr. Moody’s preaching is the | ranting of a man who seeks mere notoriety. But such persons are wrong in every particular, Mr. Moody is a man fitted for the leadership in a great work of this kind, Andif bis preaching were of a commonplace character—if he failed to interest—is it probable that men like the Lord Chancellor, Barl of Shaftesbury, Earl of Cavan and Lord Radstock would have attended his preaching regularly? They can distinguish between the genuine article of religion and mere claptrap, I imagine, ‘They know what sensationalism is; they know how to digtinguish {t from abiding faith in good works, Th appreciate earnestness, Their commendation is a testi- monial worth having. They did not go to the Haymar- ket Theatre to hear Mr. Moody in the same spirit as they would have gone to see Barnum’s ‘What Is It’ or any other exhibition of curiosities. They appreciated the rare good sense and judgment of Mr, Moody.” “GIVE 08 A ReeT,”? is your programme upon your return to “What | America?” I inquired, | “Our"first bodily wish {# for rest. Mr. Moody shall go | home to his mother tn Massachusetts and I shall retire | for a fow weeks to my old home in Pennsylvania,” “afer which you will renew your work in your own country | “We hope to be used by the Lord among our own people. Already we have requosta to visit the heathen in Cincinnati, Rochester, San Francisco and Chicago. ‘We expect and hope to go to all the larger cities | preaching, singing, exhorting, praying. Nothing can | discourage us 90 long as we feel that the Lord ood His grace is with ns. Mr. Moody is passing a fow days with Mr. James Balfour, of Liverpool, in his country seat in Walea. Our last meot- | ing in England will be held in Liverpool, on August 3, | The English proas has been exceedingly fair with us, and that is all we want. Weare open to eriticiam, of course, and we expeet it.’ A REMINISCENCE, and was about to open the door when I beard a voice—the “gosling-toned” melody of a street urchin — singing. We stopped to listen, each with the same idea | in his taind—namely, that even the boys of Clapham had learned the emotional hymns of the new crusade. | Clear and nasal, alternately, as the low or the high notes | Were reached, came the cadence of that sweet young | singer's voice, We listened with conflicting emotions | while he sung:— Just three hundred wives he had; And surely this must be too bad, | For every day be was a dad— The King of the Cannibal Islands. In aver T approached the door, Mr, Sankey bowed me ou I was too fall for atterance, shall be in America about tn time to read your let- ter,” he said, smiling “Quite Grom’) 1 tained “How fortunate!’ em Of your soul will be choked If not dng and hoed | Were too srnall, and wo had to put up a building capable | yy the faithful servan manured by the Word and | “Tt received ns very coldly at first. The Archbishop | thanked Mr, Sankey for the trouble he had | tonelli, 1 is said, has vowed to make a pilgrimage, could be but be healed of his gout and other ailments, and the Pope is said to have observed that he would willingly absolve him from that vow and give him a | permit to visit bagai whence his fancy originated. | [Bagni stand equally for baths or galleys; either translation allowed. To a lady, who, bringing hima present from an associn- tion of ladies, regretted that the gift was small, owing to the expenses incurred for the festival of the Sacred Heart, he answered promptly, “Naturally, when ail is given to the Master fittle remains for the servant,” and dilated on the special graces of the female character, adding that “women were born to love and not to hate,’” showing what of late he has evinced increasingly, | return vo his old gentlcness and kindliness of nature, THR VATICAN AUDIENCES, It ts curtons how different are the reports of his private speeches and audiences from those given to the world by the Osservatore and the Voee. His Holiness is much pre- | occupied in preparing his address to the now cardinals, | to be proclaimed in the Consistory to be held in Septem: ber, and has given special orders for proparations for the | Feception of the new American Cardinal GOOD NEWS PROM THE ELECTION POLLS. ‘The news of the triumph of tho clerical party in Venice, Florence, Genoa and Verona have raised the Pope’s hopes considerably. Indeed, the triumph is phe- nomenai, and almost the only topic which interests all | Itaiy at the present moment is precisely these was not followed, or whather an unusaall: vo Hay peli ns sed rune, because previous rains damaged it as it lay on the after reaping. At Padua wheat has already risen to 27f. and Si perneneiey Grama Ste At Naples tt stands t The also arise in the French markets, 1878 the yield in France was 82,000,000 heotolitres; in 1874, 124,000,000; this year the samo causes that affect the the French— mildew, Belgium, Holland heavy rains, just and mead in the same condition. week maize stood at one half the price of wheat, owin, p Perales narsng Pyrenvesey one ee erie fe nary pramise @ com ompber, ‘this is Uimuduall aa malse bas hichorto ftecd af two thirds the price of wheat. In fact, yesterday’s list shows a con- siderable rise. In Milan it is quoted at 13f., and in Padua and = Venetia’ «in general, whonee quantities are exported to Austria and Central Italy, prices are rising, This crop, which forms the staple, and in some ts the sole food, of the peasant and artisan of Northern Italy, is seridusly menaced by the heavy rains; the corn crops, that looked so splendid a month since, are now ‘ ing from blight and “fungus,”’ and it is feared that the elements will be found want- ing at the harvest, ‘THE VINEYARDS, As you drive through the vine countries the heavy loaded branches réjoice the eye; but on close examina- tion, a8 soon as the rain has washed off the sulphur, you sev the grapes are spotted and shrunken. In many parts they have burst, and this also is due to the heavy rains, to say nothing of the hailsterms, which in certain distriets have torn the bunches from the branches and the branches from the stem. HEMP. As yet the hemp crop promises fairty, especially in the southern Paierme, Ferrarese and Bolognese prov It is tall, green, flue and strong, oo gr in- deed, for the end of Juno, but a week's sunshine would mellow it for the scythe; and the weatherwise, who have been but too prophetic in their prognostications hitherto, announce fine weather dating from to-day—the 25th. In fact, the sky is cloudless and the atinosphere bonlsigg ‘the sorocco has ceased. May the fair promise THE SITUATION IN SICILY. ‘The agitation in Sicily seems calming down under the combined efforts of the most intluential of the Sicilian Deputies, who returned at once to their respective seats, and the conciliatory measares paayine by the govern- ment. While the Minister of the Interior increases the tax @ be pwid by the other communes for the dasio and consumo Palermo is relieved of 12,000 france, ‘TUR AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION. In Angust an Py egn Exposition and the Scientific Congress are to be held wena besides the usual sub- sidy the Minister of Public ruction has sent 12,000 francs to the ion so that the excavations ma be completed and the museum set in order, There be grand doings there, without doubt. Meanwhile the monster trial of the supposed perpetrator of the robbery of the Monte di Pieti, in Palermo, is coming off at Milan, it being impossible to find a jury or induce witnesses to come forward in the island itself, ‘THY MICHARL ANGELO CENTENNIAL. In Florence grand preparations are being made for the celebration of the Michael Angelo centenary, which is to be held in September—let us hope not at the moment when the Pope holds his Consistory in Rome, else cor- respondents will be in the plight of the doakey between two bundles of hay, even as will be the case should the Emperor of Germany—accompanied, as he is reported to be, by Moltke and Bismarck—lift "up the hight of his countenance on Ltaly in Milan during the Palermo cele- brations. AQUATIO SPORTS IN GENOA. Genoa to-day is presenting to her assembled guests the spectacle of the grandest regatta yet held in Italy. Venetian gondoliers, Neapolitan sailors, Leghorn and Pizan boatmen fare to take part in the sea and river races, and royalty is to be extensively represented, THN UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA. Bologna and her time honored university are at war with the Minister of Public Instruction, who to the errors of his predecessors has added one still more fla- grant, and unless prompt remedies be applied it wil be soon detected by students, ‘THR AMBRICAN CENTENNIAL. Protests are pouring in from all parts of Italy against the ministerial decision that the nation shall not be resented at the Philadelphia Exhibition, and private subscriptions are set on foot to save the country from a similar dishonor, VATICAN DIPLOMACY. A CATHOLIC MISSION FOR A POLITICAL LEAGUB AGAINST GERMANY. [Paris (July 24) correspondence of London Standard.] An important member of the Roman Curia, Mgr. Ber- ardi, has left Rome on a soi-disant ecclesiastical tour, but in reality on a political and diplomatic mission to Paris, Vienna, Munich and St, Petersburg. The object of Mgr. Berardi is to organize a league of the Catholic Powers against the German Empire, and to induce Russia to join it, This information reaches me from a sure source, and, however strenuously it may be contradicted, its truth is to me beyond question, I am not ina position to say what share the French government has taken in these highly dangerous negotiations. I do not believe that it has been officially a party to them, but I am given to understand that Mgr. Berardi’s mis- MUNICIPAI, ELRCTIONS. | T sent you tho result of the elections in Venice. There | the liberals allied themselves with the clerical party | against the moderates and succeeded. But in Florence | and Genoa, especially in the latte: y, itis the moder- | ates who have allied themselves against the liberals and | obtained a still more brilliant su 8, for out of 7,169 | votes 3,482 went to the urn, and out of sixty town conn- | cillors elected thirty-seven clericais and but twenty-three Uberals succeeded. At Genoa it should be stated the former Council was dissolved by government, so that there the elections are general, whereas in the other cities of Italy they are only partial, a third of the entire number being renewed every three years. And there is no denying the fact of | the Coalition. The Carrigre Mercantile, organ of the mod- erates, proposed the same candidates as the organs of the # Catholic party. And in Genoa the Catholics are strong, numerous and stanch, openiy proclaiming their alle- ginnce to the Pope, disdaining to step into aftice by | hoisting a neutral flag. | | } AL INTERESTS IN NAPLES | ‘The enti ously awaiti | of the jons, the result is | | certain, The clericals will ‘carry the day there | | also, and for the first time since the an- | nexation of 1860; for thera moderates and chericals have opeuly and avowedly joined hands and formed an offensive and defensive ailiance against the liberals, who have hitherto administered the provinee. An attempt was made to spread the belief that Cardinal Riario Sforza, Archbishop of Naples, had expressed his | disapprobation at the participation of the clergy and the faithful in the administrative elections. On this | | he ordered his secretary, Salvatore Caterini, to write a | letter to the papers confirming his adhesion to the ad- vice given in 1872, adding that he hopes to see ecclesi- astics and laity unite their lists, so as to secure admin- istrators who shall ‘hinder serious misfortunes and sectire the utmost possible good.” THR POLITICAL FOLIC’ THR CHURCTMEN, The Catholics and their organs are, at least, honest, and say, ‘we, as Catholics, mean, if we can, to secure the administration to our party; to control public instruction; to devote the communal funds to such purposes as we deem best.” But the moderate organs shirk the question, say that snch and such a candidate js not a clerical, bat an unknown, untried man, whom they port in defanit of a better, ’ The same tactice were pursued by the liberals of Venice; but they decetve no one, and are shown up by the Catholics themselves. It is difficult to account for this phenomenon entirely. Two explanations pre- sent themselves, First, that nearly all the communes of Italy are over head and ears in debt, and the citizens who elamored for féles and monuments and public gar- dons, new markets and boulevards, now that the bill is p re appalled at the sum total Instead of blaming themselves they blame their Mayor and Coun- cil, and, looking round for new men, find none in their Parties, The populations are tired of | “MODERATES RULE” in politics a8 In local affairs. The moderates dread the advent of the liberals, and both claim the alliance of the party recognized yesterday as their common foe. Again, it has always been a vexed question | with "the Catholics “whether they should take part in the elections or no, ‘This year the question has eu answered in the affirmative, and the party has put forth its strength, and until now the amount of Vhat strength was irksome to ite own members, As far ag public administration goes it may be a gain, as mem- bers of the most conservative and wealthy families in the various provinces came to the fore. Prince Govan elli, whose wife is a sister of Mgr. Chigi, is, for instance, | the only Syndic possible for Venice with a clerical ma- | jority; and so on throughout the other cities It is on | ‘the educational question, in the application of | table funds, in the resuscitation of religious | ceremonials ' and processions not —_ forbidden | by State laws, but left to the discretion of the communal anthorities, and by these for the most part abolished, that the partisans of the | Vatican will fail to content the populations unless they | alter their tactics, which is not likely; and it is probable that daring the next three years we shall see more than one dissolution of municipal councila and she commoners handed over to the tender mercies of royal commissaries, THE HARVEST—A QUESTION OF FOOD POR THE RODY. Another very intefesting topic to the entire country 18 | the harvest of 1875. July has failed 40 fulfil the | promises given by May and ‘tacitly confirmed by Jane, | The wheat crop has not attained to its ordinary mo- | dium; and Italy, despite some 8,000 hectolitres remain- ing from last year's harvest, must import 12,000,000 of | heetolitres to supply the wants of her lation. Last year, owing w the scarcity of previous harvosta, Europe in June was menaced with little lees than famine. In Italy the old averago price of wheat was fifteon francs per sack or hectolitre; in 1868 it cost fourteen {rancs; from 1865 to 1369 it finctnated between sixteen and eighteen franca; from 1870 to 1874 it rose to twenty-six francs, and for the two months previous | to the harvest it attained the fabulous price of forty franca. The abundant harvest of 1874, by far the best known for sixteen years, brought the prices back sud- denly to twenty four francs, Prudent and far-seeing | agricaltarists warned their countrymen that they must not expect the same soil, exhausted by the extraordi- nary effort, to yield much in the following year, and ex- horted them to sow wheat whore grass and clover had rested the earth, or where flax and hemp had | j enriched it, and to complete the rotation | by turning the late corn fielda into pasture | lands for tha sone Wheiler tis sage wiview sion and its object have been communicated to certain high political personages here, and that it is viewed with favor. Iam told that the’ Italian government has sent copious information to Berlin reapecting the new cosmopolitap conspiracy of the ultramontanes against the peace of Europe, You will no doubt receive fuller particulars respecting it than I am in a position to sup- ply from Rome, Vienna and Berlin. ‘The clerical prints give out that Mgr. Berardi’s health alone takes him This poor excuse is almost tantamount to a conte WATERING PLACE NOTES. * sohaaipea Mrs. A. M. Holbrook, whose nom de plume ‘Pearl Rivera,” is well known as a favorite Southern poetess, has left Niagara Falls, and, with her husband, Colonel Holbrook, of the New Orleans Picayune, is at tho New York Hotel, in the great “summer city”’—New York, Governor Tilden and Lieutenant Governor Dorshetmer left Saratoga on Friday for Buffalo and Niagara Falls, from which place Governor Tilden will return to Sara- toga the latter part of this week. P, Suarez, of Spain, is at the Grand Union, Saratoga, J. Holmanz, of Chili, is located at the Clarendon, Sar- atoga, Ex-Governor Bowie, of Maryland, is a guest at the United States, Saratoga Hon. A. L. Ward, of Rochester, is stopping at the Grand Union, Saratoga Y. Martinez, of New York city, has returned to tho Grand Union, Saratoga, William Orton, of New York, is stopping at the United States, Saratoga. Dr. D. Cummings and wife, of Lonisville, are at the Grand Union, Saratoga. So are General J. M. Randall and family, of St. Louis. State Senator. J. A. Gross, of New York, and Right Rey. John J. Conway, Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, are at the Clarendon, Saratoga, Alexander Tyler and wife, of Virginia, aro at the Clarendon, Sarotoga, RT. Woodward, of New York, is in a parlor suit at the States, Saratoga. General A. L. Lee and wife of New York, are at the Grand Union, Sarato, W. Hoey and tamily, of New York, are at Congress Mall, Saratoga. Rev. A. Lioyd, of New York, is at Dr, Hamilton’s, Baratoga. J. M. Amory and wife, of New York, are staying at the Grand Union, Saratoga. ©. V. Deforeat, of New York, Joined his family at the States on Saturday. Mrs. W. F. Crocker, of Brooklyn, ts spending the season at Dr. Hamilton's, Saratoga E. 8, Sanford, Jr., and'wife, of New York, are at the United States, Saratoga. Dr. J. M. Jolnston and wife, of Savannah, Ga., came to the Union yesterday. J. D. Fay, of Rochester, ex-Canal Commissioner, is jatered at the Clarendon, Saratoga, "fire, M. A. Dorranco und Misa Kato Dorrance, of Brooklyn, are among the guests at Dr. Hamilton's, Sara- Sonn Clayton and family, of Philadelphia, have a suit of rooms at the Grand Union, Saratoga, Hon, J. M. Beovel, a lending citizon of South Jersey, and wife, are stopping at the Grand Union, Saratoga, Rev. J. B. Doles, with Mra. Doles and daughter, of Philadelphia, are at the Grand Union, Saratoga, Hon. Waldo Hutchins, one of the independent politi- cians of New York, is at the Congress Hall, Saratoga. J. Holmanz, Miss Marion and Miss Emma Holmanz, of Chili, are among the recent arrivals at the Clarendon, Saratoga. Hon. Jacob A. Grors, of New York, State Senator from the Sixth district, came Ww the Clarendon yestor- day. ‘Jordan L. Mott, of New York, famous in connection with iron architecture, resides while in Saratoga at the Union. J. A. Grannis, a well known sammer visitant, from New York, is at his pleasant quarters at Congress Hall, alo eS Harst and wife, Mies Belle Hurst, Miss Caton and William A Hurst, of Baltimore, are at the Grand oan! AM Of Brooklyn, danghter of ‘the Inte Judge Hammond, is at Mr. Brewster's private boarding hon Among the recent arrivals at NI Falls aro :—Alex. M. Ross and family, of New York; Dr, Wieble and a arty of friends; James Hood, of Proderick City, Ma. ; Mons. Cassarini, of Paris; John L, Davenport, the actor; Hon. A. W. Lauder and party, of Toronte Dillon, of London; A. Morgan, Manchester, England; B. E. Green, of London, J. A. Moore and ‘wife, of Washing ton; William |. Hanscom, United States Navy, and wife; Ramon Montoya, of New Mexico; Dr. Frank M. Odell, of New York; Mr. and Mrs, Thomas C. Bacon, of New York; Mrs, J. M. Brooks, the Misses Brooks and Miss Florence Lippincott, of Philadelphia; Mra. L. P. MeDonald and Miss Katie Ray, of Tadiahapolis; Dr. Thomas Coggewell and wife and De TH. Chandler, of Boston: Dr, Wotthinsios Poanw of New Jersey. r A CITY FOUNDED ON A VOLCANO, The People--Their Ethnological Classifi- oatioy and Instincts. What Steinherger’s Diplomatic Conquest Is Worth. During the past fey years the attention of the more civilized States has ten attracted to those isolated groups of islands doting the southern seas and known generically as Polyneda and Australasia, and, whether ithas been the spasuodic attempt of adventurers to form governments in the more prosperous or the am- bitious scheme of lant grabbers in the less distant of these groups, the ig one of uavarying failure, almost always blurred and blackened with villany and corruption, Fiji is new struggling in the throes of an abortive attempt at cojonization and protective govern- ment and Samoa has Ately been brought prominently before the people of ow land by the landing of a new Moses under the persnality of Colonel Steinberger, aided and abetted by the executive and Material influence of our government COMING WITHIN THB INFLURNCE OF CIVILIZATION, ‘The progress of ideashas brought these far islands of the Southern Ocean within the radial lines and in- fluences of civilization, and the romance of flerce man- eating warriors and dusky maidens, garbless as the naked Pict of song—clpthed only with modesty and tattoo—is fast becoming a thing of the past, and, should Steinberger succeed, the Samoan of the future may probably bea creature glorious in high hat and opera tie, and the dusky maiden an off-colored brunette with an abnormal developmeat of panier and a possible “‘de- sire for a sphere.” SAMOA—HISTORY OF THE GROUP. Samoa, the latest scene of the latest fiibustering on the part of our non-aggressive administration, ts a group of islands, better known as the Navigators, and lying between latitudes 13 deg. 30 min. and 14 deg. 30 min, south, and longitudes 163 deg. and 173 deg. west, consisting of four principal and five lessor islands; they are known as Apolima, Manono, Savaii, Rose, Olosinga, Ofu, Manua, Tutuila and Annu. They were first seen by Bougainville in 1768 and La Perouse in |’Astmlabe in 1787, though Krusen- stein considers them to be the same as the Bauman Islands, discovered by Roggewein in 1721. They were revisited at various times by the early navigators, but their topographical and hydrographical natures wero un- known antil the United States exploring expedition, un- der Wilkes, made the famous surveys that eliminated the previous prolific chances of danger in the group, OF VOLCANIC ORIGIN. All the islands excepting Roso are of volcanic origin, and there are still extant remains of extinet vol- canoes, especially in Apolima, Savaii, Tutuila and in Lake Lauto, on the ridge of Upolu and 2,570 feet above the sea level, ‘THR ARKA OF THR Gnovur is about 2,650 square miles, and the population is esti- mated roughly at 20,000—a marked decrease from the estimate of 1840, which placed it at 55,000, and from the still later one of Admiral Erskine in 1849, which gave it from missionary sources as 37,000. ‘THR SEAT OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT. Savall, Tutuila, Manono and Upoin are the islands that attract tho greatest interest at present, Upolu being the seat of the new government, Savaii the largest; Manono from its possession of the balance of power, and Tutuila as the unrepentant and rebellious district which refuses to enter the new confederation, but sticks with grim determination to the flag and laws fur- mished by Commander Meade in his visit,to thé islands in 1872, Savaii is forty miles in length and twenty in breadth, and furnishes the largest quota to the fighting forces of the federation, but the comparative unfitness of its harbors, its difliculty of approach, the absence of permanent streams and its broken and irregular coral barrier degrade it to the second place in importance, and yields the first to Upolu. MANONO. | ‘The Créte de Coq of Kotzebue, and the smallest island of the group, lies inside the same reef as Upolu, and between it and Savaii, seven miles distant. It is the Gibraltar of the nation, selected with | rare wisdom by some pre-historic Gebel al Tarck of those seas, and so fortified by nature ag practically to be impregnable to the resources of Samoan warfare, It is simply the crater of an extinct volcano; a periphery of porpendicular rocks, fringed | with a narrow habitab welt, and broken only at the | northern point, where its natural entrance is so narrow that but a single canoe can enter at a time, 18 POPULATION does not number more than a thousand; but these ara skilled sailors, brave in war, very vikings of the austral land, and so feared that it is a tradition of the people that as go Manouo and its sailor warriors so goes Samoa TUTUILA is the windward island, and the probable port of entry and commercial depot of the future. It is high and of volcanic appearance, and of comparatively limited value as a producing country. It is the old Mabuna of | Bongainville, and for years suffered an undeserved repu- tation from the slaughter of the Comte de Langle, M. do Laimanan and a boat's crew belonging to La Perouse’s expedition. Later evidence proves that these murders were reprisals for the shooting of a native on board VAstrolabe for some imaginary offence. The island is | seventeen miles long, and in its greatest breadth about five miles, generally precipitous, diversified by narrow table lands and tortuous valleya. THK BEST HARBOR, The district of Pango-Pango possesses the best har- bor, and was selected by Mr. Webb as the coal depot for the steamers of the Australian and Intercolonial line, Its importance wis so highly appreciated by Commander Richard Meade, of the navy, that he surveyed it in the Narragansett, and during hia stay laid down the harbor accurately, selected the most available site for depots and steamers, framed a code of laws for the people, founded a local government, wise, judicious and emi- nently suited to the race and climate, and planted the seeds of an authority that seems so satisfactorily to have flourished that {t possesses inheront strength enough to defy the flatteries and threats of Steinberger and his coterie, This harbor, if any, will probably bo the entrepot for the trade of the group with the outsic world, and is by far the best, not only in this group, but im Polynesia, Evidently the crater of an extinct volcano, ms smArR approximates most nearly to a chemist's retort, and so perfectly is it landlocked that after access it is a matter of impossibility to discover the entrance. The sides are frowning, precipitous mural walls, clothed in ultra-trop- teal verdure to the summit; then straightening into nar- Tow table Iands that might be made available, with due labor and energy, for plantationa, The shore line is generally narrow, with steep approaches, affording facili- ties for docks and the loading and unloading of ships of any draught, with suficient room inshore for store houses and the modest villages that the trade would de- mi THR NATIVES are peaceable and well disposed, and #0 far as could be Judged as much Christianized as can be haped from the ‘average Kanaka, be his island what it may. UPOLO. Upolu, the capital, ts of volcanic origin, and, unlike Savail, precipitous, broken and, except in occasional places, not well adapted to cultivation; ft is high and split and fissured, but yet rich and beautiful, especially in the parts exposed to the trade winds, The eastern part w surmounted by a ridge running east and west, with outlying spurs that tend in a northwestern and southeastern direction. It possesses A NUMBER OF EXCRLLENT MARRORS, permanent, full volumed streams and feeders; is en- lirely surrounded a coral breakwater, and, like ‘Tahiti, ie on ite southern side taxurtous and admirably adapted in piaces to moderate coftee and sugar planta tious. A SAVE ANCHORAGE. Its principal harbor is secure, with safe anchorage’ for twenty siya: yiedky Of Wali, (he entrance throngh the reef ig narrow, and, with certain wind® dangerous, ' THR CLIMATE 1s tropteal and healthy, the extreme heat being tome. by the trade winds; but from November lo May canes are not unfrequent and always severe, “APIA. At present Apia, in Upolu, is the principal settlement of the group, and consists of three towns, separated by sroall streams, and rjoicing both in English and native ‘THE CONSULS OF THERE NATIONS. Malanta, the chief native settioment, is the Americap town, Apia per the English and Matafela the Ger man, and in their respective districts, the consuls of those three nations lord it, with dignifiod sway and names, rial and vileges to boo! Tula are always at loggerhead afer the mauser of petty consula, with other. COMMERCE. ave hou of GadetoyDotos, Hun ure, oceui of Godet lamburg, D an extensive ceublukient of Matefoln whore bi pecad pal yy fellowship go hand in hand, Kew export nearly ail the cobra or dried cocoanut, in which main traffic consists, have nearly fifty ships, of sizes, in the trade,’ and their enterprise is’ so ox tended and their energy 69 untiring that it will re- quire a serious effort to dispossess them of a tithe of their business with the groups for hundreds of miles to windward and to legward What other trade there {s in the group is purely local Whas artery do it is difficult to predict; bub is in tho and sea capabilities of production) that would repay, not fabulously, but with the sam ip any other coantry percentage of profit isothermal the same ‘Tho natives ro, physically splendi@ imengy are physically splendid specim strongly Malayan in their characteristics, and, like the Hay oe episiene and Marqueeans, casirely, yan or tnstincts, aro loose thelr morals, fond of ram and ie not haok for tracts and hymn books and are of fighting where nobody is hurt. Notwithstanding thetr a ently magnificent payarane, sey are incapable of ser feria oe coe nel d ipa wholly on jazy that they live years tee ordinary thoes dia They tae ae natured and polite, but not so brave and generous their windward neighbors the Tahitians, nor as int gent or skilfal ag their leeward neighbors the Fijians. DRESS FASHIONS, ral eas a wl a Stal haut tr call tattoo, y smilingly that obtains and isolated nature. fy Kaglish ‘MUSIC HATH CHARMS. They are passionately fond of music, and thelr fa vorite airs are “Sherman's March Through Georgia," brought there by the Kearsarge in 1869, and ‘‘s! Fly,” to which the officers of the Resaca'plead guilty Stelnberger has y Introduced by this timo ther “Mull * and the “Conspirators’ Chorus, the last sibilantty chanted by and his friends of the Colonization Company. ‘THE WORK OF THE MISSIONARIES, Various schemes have from time to time been #6 afloat to improve these islands, ory, under the guise of Chadbandism—of pious efforts to redeem the Denighted heathen from the mire of idolatry; bat, backed as some have been by missionary influence by zealous and dogmatic Mrs, Jellybys at ote have failed, Men have come, less pious civil one | and their motives have been patriotism, pure undefilod—an insatiable longing to spread the influence of their native lands, to behold the banners of their homes floating in eating ee thules, and to hear the shibboleths of their race ring out with ee TEs ths Croaily: ee nee ‘aot ped [eect yang joneers, like the eqnal an ly pious evangel- have succumbed, until at last, Phoenix liko, they: rise from the mage ety es. on the wings of a news and ya effort, the waiting world. All are merged in one. Piety, prudery, patriotism beam from ‘the Sublimated smile of Steinberger, and the roars of American guns proclaim him PERPETUAL PRIMM MINISTER, police er letter to every itp baa hiicd oid . less @ money-making, land. in, pchecnay there os tno doubt, and’ almost the words that the eloquent Colonel uttered before leaving: were of the nature of a promise to a gallant and dis- tinguished naval officer, beseeching him to come wi him, as “there was lots of money into it” Thus the gallant Colonel declared upon certain and unimpeach- able evidence, ROW WM PAINTED rr. In his oration before the assembled kings—they are: all kings there—he picturod a new Utopia,a golden returned, and with his hands clenching the i dent’s letter and his arms embracing the new and tear dimmed flag of his country, he eom| i and tts in the soale of civilization, and pictured to the awe- ied and naked monarchs glories that the future held for them. It is a wonder that Tua Atua, who is clover as Samoans go, did not ask him why Tahiti, with every peerage not attained the same nat Hawaii, or why Fiji and Tongatabou wore still so back- ward. He may have askod him but bi is ailent and declares rifery np) weed WOT MUOT AFTER ALL. Samoa can never amount to more than a coaling sta tion—something better than St. Vincent in the Cape da Verdes, somthing Bes than Sandy Point in the Straits of Magellan—and the people of this country are solemnly warned to avoid all delusive schemes of coloni- zation a8 so many snares planned for the benefit of Stoin- berger and the companies that have defrauded the natives of their lands and seek now to rej themselves for the arms and rounitions of war they supplied to carry on the internecine wars that have raged for the past four years. AS BABES AND AS MEN. THE CARDINAL AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL A HISTORICAL NOTE It is a fact, according to ‘Stiles’ History of Brooks lyn,” which may prove of interest to the friends and admirers of two eminent men of this country, that Car dinal McCloskey and Attorney General Henry E. Pierre pont are, as it were, foster brothera. Both distinguished gentlemen are natives of the City of Churches. The house in which the Cardinal was born stood at the ine tersection of what is now known as Fleet street and DeKalb avenue. Speaking of @ period about the year 1820, “The History of Brooklyn,” by Stiles (page says :— “The road before mentioned as passing eastward, past Poling’s tavern, led toa house on Fort Greene, occu- pied by a milkman named George McCloskey, who wag the father of the present Roman Catholic Archbishop of Now York. The future Archbishop, we have been told, was born in midwinter, when the ground was covered with deep snow and the bay filled with ice. His mother, be- | Ing taken soriously ill after her confinement, was unabla to nurse him, when Mrs. Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, whose son, Henry &, was an infant of nearly the same age, sympathizing with the helpless condition of the mother and the dangor of the chil went herself and nursed the infant until ti mother wag able to do #0, The boy throve, commenced the study of law ander Joseph W. Smith, Eaq., of New York, but finally quit and entered the ‘ministry, to the delight of his worthy father, who could, however, hardly have anticipated the eminence to which his som Was ultimately to attain.” RAPID TRANSIT. The Commissioners of Rapid Transit met in the Court of Common Pleas, new County Court House, yesterday noon, President Seligman in the chair, Mr. J. B. Cor- nell, of the famous firm of iron mongers, was admitted: and Lad a hearing before the Commission relative to the plan which he has submitted. Mr. Lowrey, of the New York Elevated Railroad, | heard regarding the route which the proposed ‘road should take, but no action was taken looking toward the locating of a route, A plan from A. Strirle, of Lewes, Del, was received and referred, and the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the chair. THE NEW FIRE PLUG. A few days ago tho Intersection of the water main om the corner of Beckman and Nassan streets was stopped for the purpose of testing the “Hill patent fire plug,” and yesterday afternoon, in the presence of the New York Fire Commissioners of the Water Board and a delegation of the Jersoy City Fire Commissioners, the test was made, The three most powerful engines of the city—Nos, 11, 20 and the Second battalion—were bronght up to the plug and ahose from each attached to, one of-the three outlets of the plug. The water was then. turned on and the engines supplied with all they could use. One of th was then detached and the outlet left open, but the plag could not be emptied, the two en- gines being kept supplied and the other outlet ranning all the time, The,experiment was then tried with one en- gine and two of the outlets open, but with the same ro- sult, Two of the engines were then attached, and while they were being supplied with water the boiler of the third engine was being filled from tho other outlet. The nozzle used was one-fourth of an inch in diameter. * A three inch Gross nozzle was then tried, and the com- | bined force of the two engines could not exhaust the supply. The streamthrown by them reached beyond Sprace street, The Manufacturers claim that it is im- possible for these plugs to freeze up, as they reach far Below the frost lino and the tubes ‘are oneased in air- tight cylinders made of iron, and so perfect is the waste system that no water can get above the line of freezing. An advantage |s also claimed in tho fact that when a cylinder gets out of order it is only necessary to take off the top of the plug, pull it out and remedy the evil, without the least interfering with the iron case in which they are enclosed. [t is only neces cessary to tap the intersection of mains, where the mains are small, as they are in this city, Ifthe main t= twelve or nine inches it is tapped. The tapping ia always done underneath the main intersection, ced by this means the pipe leading to the plug is kept andor below the frost lina The water pressure yea terday was found to be only two feet, when it shoald hav twenty feet, —— 80 far, express themselves satia- THE JEFFERSON BORDEN MUTINY. Yesterday morning United States Agsistant District Attorney Purdy r from George P. Sangor, United States District Attorney for Massachusetts, a communi- cation saying that the ship Jefferson Borden might ar- rive at New York within a few hours, and requestin that proper arrangements be promptly made to ares! the captain, William M. Patterson, and all of the crow on arrival, and to send them to Boston as witnesses against the alleged mutineers who attempted to capture: the ship on her last voyage. A force of United States Deputy Marshals wore at once sent down the Bay with doh ad to intercept the shin and arrest the olteare erew.