The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK i acre BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. oases “see JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, eas NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and the daily and weekly after January 1, ! editions of the New York Henatp will be sent free of aia THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henaxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ieaieaeniiniten LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE--RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions, and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TO-MORROW, GARDEN, T, at 8 P.M. AMUSEMENTS CE THEODORE TH WALLACK y and Thirteenth street.—| P.M. THEATRE, Broadway English Comte Opera— GRAND DUCHESS, at 8 Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. G. H. Maedermott. West Sixteenth stree PRINCESS OF TREBIZON DE, acs P. 5 Closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEU Broadway, corner of ‘Thirtieth sire: “eacn TO FACE, at SPM: closes at 10:45 M. Matinee at 2 P. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, th avenue, corner Twenty-third street.—MACBETH, at , M.; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway —VARIETY, at 5'P. M. | LYCEUM THEATRE, street.—French Opera Takenipud’ atsP. M. * Bouffe—MADAME CIRCU! HOWE & © S, Afternoon and evening SH foot of Honston street, East Kiver performances. pi § SAN FRA) or Seen House, Broad: arSP.M. ACADEMY OF MU! piece and Fourteenth IN EIGHTY DAY. ‘Third « ss BOOTHS THEATRE, Sains “ ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— at M.° Mr. Barry Sullivan, xth avenue. —COTTON & REED'S closes at 10 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, sg Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late “ype ie Hippodrome. —GRA AND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ¥ 128 West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. M. to TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third av ARIETY, at 8 P.M. FIFTH AVE: Pe orERA ATRE. MEXICAN JUVEN- loses at 10:30 P.M. th street, near tw TROUPE, at 8 P. ‘nda y Moron. TRE, t.—THE MIGHTY DOL Florence. COLONEL 8! — VARIETY, at From our reports ‘this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and | clear or partly clowdy. Watt Steer Yestenpay.—Stocks were quiet. Gold advanced to 114%. Money on-call abundant. Foreign exchange dull. The bank statement shows a large decrease of Bpecie. Westervert’s Tran is still progressing, but the hope is dying ont that it will lead to | the discovery of the stolen child. | REMY Bye | Generat Dornecanay, it is reported, has again escaped, this time into Navarre. His cause is a hopeless one, and the sooner he abandons it the better. Quvaraytixe Arrams are engaging the at- tention of the Legislative Committee, but yes- terday the only thing accomplished was the basis for investigation Our Movuntars Lerrers 5 from the Cats- kills and the Adirondacks will be found to possess a breezy interest this morning, and | will be read with pleasure after the heat of the past few days. Even 1s New Sour Watts preparations | are actively going forward for the Centennial | Exhibition. This news from the antipodes | ought to make the American people even more anxious to make the exhibition worthy | HERALD! | is not a religions question, but a question of | eyes to the fact than to any other phenomena. | religions The Public Schools. The opening of the public schools in this | city has become a greater event in the public mind than the recurrence of the May anni- versaries or than Evacuation Day was in the | past. The reason of all this is obvious. | Popular education is the legitimate out- growth of republican institutions. A govern- ment for the people and by the people is in- separable from the idea of general intelli- gence. This ideal is only attainable by the training of the masses at the expense of the | State. All the relations of monarchy and the | Church are in opposition. Common schools, free from sectarian influences,.are the first | born of our republican notions of govern- j ment, and we might be able to dispense with | the three co-ordinate branches ordained by our | constitution before it would be possible to | forego our public school system. However specious the pretence upon which opposition | to the public schools is based, however just | it may appear in the manner of its presen- | } | tation, its success could only have tor | ultimate result the overthrow of the Republic. We may as well understand | the contest that is arising out of this | school question now as at any other time, It the dominion of the priest over the people. It involves all the old problems of the divine right of kings to govern wrongly, and of popes to rule the consciences of men, and is at war with freedom and the free expression of opin- ion. Our school system abridges in no re- spect the rights of the Roman Catholic Church, but places the children of every citizen on an equality which it should be the pride of the State to maintain. But we are aware that a conflict is inevitable. In Ohio the question has already entered into the canvass between Governor Allen and General Hayes. In this city we are told the Board of Education is almost evenly divided on the subject of placing parochial schools | on the same basis as those already main- tained at the public expense, The whole issue, whether at the West or the East, involves only evil to those seeking to pre- cipitate it, and, if the issue comes in the form that now seems inevitable, in the end it must injure those by whom it is sought even more than the class which seeks to avert it. The popular heart is with popular education, Any man or any class of men who seek to destroy it or to retard its useful- ness and success may be assured of the full | weight of public displeasure before the con- | troversy is ended; and ‘it is owing to this fact and to the certainty of an unwiseand retro- gressive contest with every element of prog- ress that the subject rises into such promi- nence at this time. The opening of the | public schools will be from this time hence- forward the signal for a battle which can only end in the defeat and overthrow of the enemiesof the common school system, and the | sooner this end is accomplished the better it will be for the safety of the State and the well being of the whole people. This issue is not a new one if we have re- gard to the comparative newness of the com- mon school system. Indeed, it is much older than the idea of popular education. It is as old as the rule of obedience, which both | kings and popes have sought to enforce. It is coeval with kingeraft and has grown with the growth of all the attributes of kings. But itis incompatible with republican institu- tions. Secular education is a thing apart from any tradition which has come down to the present generation. It is a new idea and it is bound to triumph over Church and sect, and even over religion itself, if religion un- | dertakes to oppose it. In this there is a les- son which every sect can learn to advantage; not the Roman Church alone, but all the subdivisions of Protestantism. Indeed, so far as the Church of Rome is concerned, the conflict is one of the last decade. In the past Rome fought her battles in Catholic coun- | tries—in Italy, in Spain, in France, in Austria and in Southern Ger- many. In the present the struggle is confined to the strongholds of the Reformation. A pietist King of Prussia, with Bismarck as his right hand, has become the Emperor of the North. In England Mr. Gladstone has come forward as the popular | leader in the war against the Vatican, In | America the conflict takes a different but a not less certain shape. Here the Church seeks to assert her power through the de- struction of the schools upon which the people depend. It is amazing that a policy | so shortsighted and so sure of defeat should be adopted by an earnest and intelligent priesthood; but we can no more close our | 1 There is nothing in secular education to in- | terfere with the spiritual dominion of the | Church except that personal independence | | which always comes with republicanism, | and if the Catholic clergy in America think | it wise to oppose this they will find their. mistake in theit own defeat. In the Church is the proper place to teach: religion, the | public sqjools having an entirely different | purpose. We might as well seek to carry | ideas and restrictions into the factories and workshops of the city as into of the country and its history. Tue democratic party at Syracuse is enlivening the leaders all over the State, and especially in this city. The squabbles of the factions | grow more bitter as the anxious day ap- | and the situation affords a theme résumé which we proaches, for a very interesting print this mori, Tae Tonsisn [xsvnnection.—In spite of all the rumors to the contrary the insurree- tion in Herzegovina and the discontent in the other States seem to grow in intensity from day to day. Neither Servia nor Mon- tenegro is likely long to remain neutral, | and the only oy e of peace for the present is | SreEPLECHASING AT Newront has proved a | great attraction, and onr full reports of the two races yesterday will be read with great interest. This innovation on the of the old-fashioned watering place is mlivening the town in a way that would do | eredit to its younger rivals, and, besides | being the most fashionable of all our sum- | mer resorts, Newport promises to become in sonsequence of this excellent sport the most | attractive. ‘The first race yesterlay was won by Osage, and the second race, the Newport | staid ways our public school system, and to divide the | school fund with religious denominations would be equivalent to destroying both secular and sectarian education. It is the dnty of the State to afford mental training to the young, while the whole subject of reli- gious instruction is left to the churches, and | if both of these fulfil their own proper fune- tions the conflict that now seems inevitable | will be averted, and the only wonder will be that there ever was an issue in regard to it. | The considerations to which we have al- | lauded in the course of this article devolve an | overwhelming duty upon the Board of Edu- | cation and the officers charged with the con- duct of the public schools, especially at this time. To-morrow the new school year begins. In the morning thousands of chil- dren will gather in the different school build- | ings of the metropolis to learn the lessons of the year. It is a matter of the greatest con- sequence that no mistakes shall be made at the outset; that a staff of instructors shall have been chosen, morally and intellectually without reproach, that the schools themselves shall offer as great advantages to the children of the rich as can be found anywhere in the metropolis, and that the poorest child shall be denied nothing in the way of instruction which money could purchase or social posi- | general advantages. | duty | exists at present. | and Mrs. Dr. Lozier will, therefore, | Herarp. maak of our ag school system it the schools are properly managed. not been attained in the past is no argument | against its attainability. In a eity like this the free schools and free academies should | surpass even the universities of England and | the Continent in their special as well as their The public schools of New York city should exhibit a curriculum the highest in the world. Had not political interests and religious antipathies entered into their management even this high ideal would be no longer problematical, nor should we have occasion to speak of it as a thing desirable in itself but difficult of attainment. ‘The trouble has been that weak and ignorant men have been intrusted with the highest which the people can devolve upon any citizen, and the comparative failure of our common school system is | to be attributed as much to feeble | administration within as to opposition from without. The way to make the public schools successful is to make them fully adequate to the purposes for which they are intended, and this is completely in the hands and under the control of the Board of Education, If this is done with half the zeal and wisdom and intelligence that ought to be shown the opposition to the common school system | which has grown so immensely in the last few years will soon die out; for there ean be no competition between the public arid the parochial or sectarian schools if the popular trust is wisely, honestly and earnestly ad- ministered. After saying all this we have another word to add, which cannot be left unsaid. In this matter the people have a duty to perform which cannot safely go unperformed. It will not do any longer to take the instruction and discipline of the public schools upon trust. Every parent ought to know the teacher of his children and all the surround- ings and associations of the schoolroom. Each block should have its visiting commit- tee, and there should be no secrets and no abuses in the schools un- known in the families of those” who de- pend upon them forthe education of their children. Every school, from the lowest to the highest, should be carefully watched and jealously guarded, not by the officials alone, but by the citizens. Until this is done we cannot expect that excellence we have a right to demand; but if a new spirit enters the people with the beginning of the new school year—if, at last, we all determine that our school system shall be indeed worthy of this imperial city—the next annual report of the Board of Education will show a very different state of affairs from that which We now have the oppor- tunity and the experiment fs well worth the making. Pulpit Topics To-Day. * The reopening of the churches and the re- turn of the ministers give promise, even thus early, of the religious campaign that may be looked for during this fall and winter. It is to be an onslaught all along the line against sin and Satan, and glorious victories are an- ticipated. Messrs. Moody and Sankey will ! be here a few weeks hence to lead the assault, | and already ‘‘the messenger of the judgment dispensation” has laid his plans for ‘the ap- proaching mighty destruction of the worki.” Habbakuk's prayer will be in many hearts and on many lips these days, and Mr. Lloyd does well to remind his people of the work that is implied in that prayer, as well as to indicate to them how they may be saved | from wreck and ruin on boards and broken pieces of the ship as Paul was. Mr. Hawthorne will tell his people how to treat their enemies and thereby to illustrate the power of Chris- tian living, and Professor Loutrel will show the value of forgiveness to the common people and to all others. The reign of Christ, concerning which Mr. Hitchcock will speak this morning, will hardly be intro- | duced so long as intemperance and other Mr. Lightbourn indicate what are our duties as Christians and citizens on this great question. While others are strongly contending for uniformity in unity Mr. E. H. Saunders maintains that vaviety in unity is the law of the Church of Christ. Mr. Wiggin will go into some speculations on the weight of the soul, the idea being, dotbtless, to show that it has weight, and is, therefore, matter, and consequently dies with the body—a very favorite theory with many persons in these days and one that has had some ventilation in the columns of the But with somany eminently pious and practical themes before them the readers evils prevail as they do. | of the Henaxp will not object to a little speculation now and then even about their | “inner man.” Rarm Traystr.—The problem of rapid transit, which has been a provoking one for many years, it seems has been solved at last, and in a way that is likely to prove satisfac- tory to most of our citizens. Instead ofa single line three routes have been chosen, one for the east side by the way of Second or Third avenue, and the others through Sixth and Ninth avenues. No streets could be named which would more completely meet the wants of the majority of the people of New York, and if the roads are as satisfac- tory as the routes which have been chosen the Commissioners will have earned lasting honor from the commupity, pe be West Porst Mrrany ‘Aca ApEMY.—The annual report of the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy at» West Point is made public this morning, It contains a number of valuable and important suggestions, which | will commend themselves to Congress and the country. There is every reason why the highest possible standard should be main- tained for this institution, and we hope that anything which may be Academy will be promptly supplied to en- able it to maintain its high rank. More pro- fessors and professorships are needed anda fuller curriculum in natural science and modern languages. The American soldier ought to be a scholar as well, and the best way to make him one is to enlarge the facili- ties of the West Point Academy Tue Preman has been ej from the new Post Office. Now let the basement be prop- erly ventilated, and then, perhaps, the public will learn to be satisfied with the splendid structure and its accommodations, At any aandicap, was a dead heat between Dead- | tion command. This is a high ideal, we con- | rate pure airis a good Wying, even for petsons head and Woodville fess; but no culture is too great to be de- | in the public service That it has | lacking to the | Lightning Trains, All the progress in the world has been se- — cured by the spirit of private enterprise, and governments haye always been the greatest | obstacle in the way of, every advance in knowledge and every achievement that | tended to ameliorate the condition of the human race. Governments instinctively | take the position that a man who proposes | to do anything that has not been done be- | fore—who suggests innovations in machin- | ery that seems to be just working easy after @ practice of a thousand years—is a fit sub- ject to be sent to a lunatic asylum; and in | the good old times, when governments did | what they pleased, they acted on this view of the nature of innovators. On the other hand, the instinctive view of the individual is always that, if there is any conceivable act that has not yet been dono, it is the one, above all others, to set about immediately. Out of this impulse of individuals has come all the inventions and all the progress of the modern world; and out of the fact that gov- erment is always the great obstacle has come all the revolutions. Personal conceptions, individual views of what is possible, the adventurous spirit to make the trial where all is doubt, and where calamity may follow failure—all the notions, in short, that are grouped in the name “pri- vate enterprise” constitute the great initia- tory force in the history of the human race. This force opened to man all the seas of the world by astronomical discoveries conducted in the face of official persecution ; it besieged throne after throne for permission to dis- cover America; it taught men the art of printing in defiance of death at the stake by fire ; it covered the world with the wire web of the telegraph, and government unvill- ingly grudged a pittance for experiment, and it has made the antipodes neighborly gossips by that ever wonderful wire and by steam- ships and the railway train, It is, therefore, no new fact that is ob- served in the latest endeavor to extend the operation of the great invention of steam communication to all the uses of which it is capable. Private enterprise leads the way, and government, stirred by this evidence of popular demand, follows. It is a fact very pleasant to contemplate that our own gov- ernment in this case, more amenable to pop- ular influence and more attentive to a fair expression of public wants than the govern- ments of the older countries, does not resist and discourage and defeat, but moves read- ily forward in sympathy with progress. This is an improvement on the old style. But the great public, which is to realize the benefit of this prompt and liberal spirit of the government, must not forget where the reform was initiated. It must not forget, moreover, the recognition due to the admin- istration of the Central Railroad, which showed by a series of the most successful trains ever run in this country, and which, perhaps, could not have been run on any other America railroad, the feasibility of a mail delivery at a rate never dreamed of by the authorities. In upward of four thousand miles, travelled at a rate that would make the head of the ordinary traveller swim at the sight of the landscape, this admirably organized and administered road not only never had an accident, but never had a bolt out of place. It is to the administration of this road, therefore, to Mr. W. H. Vander- bilt, the Vice President, and his capable and efficient staff, that the thanks of the public are due for the exhibition of the feasibility of the rapid trains that promise to do so much for interstate commerce. | “The Noiseless Panic in Real Estate.” We print elsewhere an interesting article in refi ce to the exact condition of the In time we shall probably have the Custom House and the Merchants’ Exchange. What the Bank of England quarter is to London, what the Bourse is to Paris, the Post Office is to New York. This is the heart of the city, and it will so continue for generations. We repeat that there is no reason why real estate should not continue to be now, as in the past, gn investment in every respect se- eure and sure to grow in value as our city | grows in metropolitan strength and pros- perity, But the owners of real estate must learn from the events of the past few months | that it is foolish to speculate in this interest. | In fact, all the troubles that we now en- counter are from speculation. The Debt of Two Cities. From a statement which is furnished to us by the financial departments of New York and Brooklyn we have an idea of the fiscal condition of these two cities. We do not accept these figures as altogether accurate, Our experience with political finances is not of aconsoling character. There is some in- terest in the facts, which may be learned by studying them. We observe, first, that the debt of New York at the close of 1874 is $114,979,969 99 ; that this debt had increased to $130,877,070 01 within six months, and that during the month of August it increased over $3,000,000.- We find that revenue bonds have been issued to the amount of $25, 137,200, and when we look at the items covered by these bonds we find $1,500,000 for public works, $215,000 for city park improvements, $300,000 for the Fourth avenue improve- ment, $122,000 for museums of art and natural history. We cross over to Brooklyn and we find a debt of $22,600,263 61. In these items we find a half million for the im- provement of Wallabout Bay, $4,000,000 for the completion of the bridge and over $9,000,000 for the Prospect Park. There are temporary loans to the amount of $10,600,000, which are to be paid by assess- ments. We presume that the result will be that a very small portion will ever be ob- tained from “assessments.” It will be a bur- den to the people, as these things generally are. Adebt of over $135,000,000 is not an ex- travagant tax upon cities as rich as Brooklyn and New York. So far as we are concerned a good portion of this debt is to be at- tributed to the policy of the old Tammany Ring. When we consider that we owe this money, that a great portion of it has been spent for ‘public improvements,” and that, notwithstanding our streets are, with searcely an exception, a disgrace to the city and will require an expenditure of millions before they can be made comfortable or trustworthy, we can understand the burden that now rests upon us and the danger that ¢t will be increased. New York would gladly pay twice what she now owes to have a city worthy of her metropolitan name; but we must consider this debtas largely the penalty to pay for our own neglect and misgovern- ment. New York to-day requires more money than at any period of her history, We have the Central Park, which is some- thing—a great deal, indeed, to have saved from the wreck. We need rapid transit. We should have docks and piers and a thor- ough repaving of the city. We should have new reservoirs for the Croton water. All these will cost a great deal of money.. If we continue our present policy there is no rea- son why we should not ran up our bill to $200,000,000. While we do not object to paying these sums of money for the improve- ment of New York, to make it in all respects worthy of its rank there should be a new policy adopted. Instead of issuing revenue bonds to meet every emergency in the Comptroller's Office real estate market. We have had so many stories as to the extraordinary fall of real estate in New York that our readers will thank us for an intelligent exhibit of its con- dition. The general shrinkage in values, in- evitable since the war and now irresistibly upon us, has naturally affected the temporary value of all property. Real estate has sympathized with other in- vestments and has fallen in many quarters below its true valne. Those who suffer the people should promptly pay their taxes, and pay taxes sufficient to enable us to complete these improvements. This whole business of issuing bonds is a mistake. It will do in war times, but not in peace, As was well expressed by Mr. Dana when declining the nomination of an independent party for the: office of Mayor, while Tweed and Connolly robbed the city Havemeyer and Green have slowly been strangling it. The policy of either is sure to bring bank- from the fall belong to that class who feel cruelly any emergency in our business ; men who believe in nothing but a rising market ; who hasten to become rich ; who speculate upon their dreams, and who have been pur- chasing real estate upon small margins, in the wild hope that the extraordinary ad- vances of the past few years would be main- tained. This is the meaning of the fore- closure of mortgages--of what our reporter aptly calls “the noiseless panve in real estate.” It means nothing more than this, because the value of real estate as the best attainable investment cannot be ever seriously assailed. When New York meets the returning breezes of prosperity the first interest that will recover from this de- pression will be that interest which repre- sents, after all, the glory and wealth of thie metropolis. Many changes have taken place in real estaée in the lower part of the city, but no change is as important as that of the removal of the Post Office to its new building. The ree moval makes the old Park the heart of the metropolis, Around it are the courts and the seats of municipal authority. Broadway, our great artery, skirts it on one side, and the street which may be called the extension of | the Bowery the other. The completion of the Brooklyn Bridge will open a new |}avenue toward that great suburb; and if we ever have a Hudson River tunnel it | will naturally come into Barclay or Cham- bers street, thus making a great road to the Jerseys. If we have rapid transit, which, like the millennium, is always hoped for, | always coming, but never arrives, the main | depot will naturally be in the Park, Near at | hand is the Western Union Telegraph build- | ing, the centre of that ‘mighty and bewil- | dering system of communication by land and | Under its shadow are nearly all the newspaper offices, We have the Tribune, the the World, the Evening Post the Times and the Staats Zeitung, with new and stately buildings, in imitation—if we may be par- doned such a remembrance in this era of architectural emulation—of what the Hunanp did when it came here some years ago, All the metropolitan world centves about the new Post Office. sell. ‘Here justice is administered, Here | are all the operations of a great government, sea. Sun, Here merchants buy and | ruptey. Let it be the motto of our new re- formers to pay as we go, Notes from the Religious Press. The Evangelist thinks the alliance of Re- formed or Presbyterian churches recently formed in London, if successfully carried out, will tend to make these churches more thoroughly acquainted with each other and diminish any misapprehensions or local jealousies and rivalries that may exist. A splendid and useful future ig looked forward to for the alliance. The Christian Intelligencer reaches out a helping hand and says a good word for the temperance workers in Ireland, where it says there is far less whiskey con- sumed, in proportion to the number of people, than in England and Scotland. The Temperance Association of Ireland have issued an appeal to the ministers of the land to unite in advancing its cause. The liquor manufacturers and vend- ers have organized in defence of their business, and hence the Intelligencer would have every lover of Ireland and of tem- perance engaged in the crusade against rum. The Observer calls attention to the fact or the rumor that Roman Catholics are com- bining to present a solid phalanx at the polls in order to elect candidates who will give them what they demand of the people's money, and put them in positions to further any and all of their strictly sectarian ends, This subject was discussed recently at the meeting at Sea Grove, near Cape May, and resolutions were adopted pledging the sup- porters to oppose any union of Church and State or any interference with our public schools. In these purposes, the Observer thinks, every Protestant ought to unite, The Methodist publishes an original letter; written in 1854 by the late Bishop Capers, in which he predicts the downfall of slavery and pleads for the reunion of the two Meth- | Methodist believes that when | The the dead speak to us as from their graves the time for such reunion is not far distant. The Baltimore Kpiscopal Methodist lays the lash odisms. on a Southern fireseater, who has written | against fraternization. This is the only out- spoken paper in all the South on this ques- | tion, and the editor declares that notwith- | standing the opposition the cause is growing and strengthening all over the South, In Tennessee it has gained one hundred per cent. In Virgin four-fifths of the minis- ters are heartily in favor of fraternization, and similar reports are heard from other States and conferences, Apropos of the recent cure of Rev. 8. H. Platt’s lameness in answer to prayer by a lady at Ocean Grove the Baptist Weekly does not see why such things should not happen now as well as in apostolic days, It cites a | number of instances of physical cures effected in modern days in answer to prayer, and declares that among the Friends the con- tinuance of the gift of healing has always been firmly held. ‘It may be,” says the Weekly, “that while the Christian world has been gravitating visibly, more and more, to- ward the vanishing point of faith in the su- pernatural, and now that te modern era of science has begun to shape the thoughts of men by only scientific methods, that a special occasion has arisen for a fresh display of signs and wonders to keep the Church and the world alive and open to the reali+ ties of God’s immediate visitation.” Ronpenres.—We print this morning a series of interesting robberies yesterday in different parts of the city, and congratulate the Police Department on the escape of all or most of the thieves. It is soseldom that an arrest is made nowadays that we commend the list to the Superintendent and suggest that he ar- rest somebody for one or other of the of- fences. It would be a genuine surprise if the municipal police should succeed in catching a thief. Rartnoap Murpers in the adjacent New Jersey cities are matters of frequent occur. rence, Our news columns this morning con- tain an account of one of these at a street crossing at Newark yesterday. We presume it useless to urge the duty of providing for the greater security of life in these places, as the railroads seem to manage the State and to be careless of individual rights, Tre Newsrnoys had the advantage of the free excursion yesterday. This was the last picnic of the year; but many an anxious child will wait with impatience for the seasons te roll round, so as to bring another day of joy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, |, \ex-Governor Warmoth, of New Orleans, is in Mon- treal. Rev. John Percival, of New Orleans, is staying at the Westminster Hotel, Mr. Eugene Casserly, of California, is sojourning at the Brevoort House. Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, ‘Adjutant General Franklin Townsend arrived from Albany last evening at the Hotel Brunswick, Mr. Isaac Burpee, Commissioner of Customs of Canada, has arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Mr, Nairn, an Englishman, has made a wager to go from Paris to Vienna on a velocipede in twelve days, “Ho! every one that thirsteth.”” France will make this year, as estimated, 4,240,000,000 gallons of wine. Captain Von Eisendecher, naval attaché of the Gerd man Legation at Washington, is at the Westminster Hotel. Sefior Don Juan B. Dalla Costa, Minister for Vene- zuela at Washington, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Mr. Alfred T. Goshorn, Director Genoral of the Cen- tenmial Exhibition, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. To the innumerable lives of Christ wil be added another by Father Coleridge, the Jesuit, in three or more volumes. That blessed Baedcker has gone to the Holy Land to prepare another boon for travellers under the title of “Handbook to Palestine.” , At the present time more are going to heaven through, the aid of green apples than by all other means put tov gether.—Cape Ann Weekly. Brovet Brigadier General William Myers, of the Quartermasters Department, United States Army, ig registered at the Windsor Hotel. Vice President Wilson has gone to Long Branch to spend the Sabbath with Mr. George W. Childs. He will return to this city to-morrow, Sir A. H. Gordon, the newly appointed Governor of Fiji, arrived at his post on the 25th ult, and was re- ceived with a military demonstration by the native troops. Rear Admiral Reed Worden, who has recently been ordered to the command of the South Pacific station, arrived at the Everett House yesterday from Wash. ington, ‘The eldest son of Marshal MacMahon has just left St, Cyr, and will enter the infantry, “that modest arm of the service which is good for nothing but to win battles.” Theodore Tilton commences his lecture tour in Port Jervis on Wednesday, September 15, after which he will lecture in Middletown, Newburg, Poughkeepsie and Kingston. \Mrs. Oliphant’s forthcoming book, “The Makers of Florence,” has for its object to present a vivid picture of the past life and celebrated men of the beautiful Italian city. Mr. ©. F. Wood’s “Yachting Cruise in the South Seas,” just out in London, has much information on some rarely visited Pacific islands, including the Caroline Group and the Mulgrave Islands. The English lake district is being ruined by railways, factories and coal smoke, Wordsworth’s Ambleside being threatened, which has led to a petition to the House of Commons against the nuisance, Tie English naval authorities are experimenting on ‘a submarine boat in the torpedo service. It is proposed to blow up an adversary in a naval combat by attaching a torpedo to her by means of this boat. M. Thiers left Paris on the 20th ult. to go to Geneva, whence he was to go to Vevay, where, “they say,” he was to meet Prince Gortschakof It is just. possible Gortschakoff would like to know the condition of French thought on the Eastern question, Among forthcoming autobiographies we are promised “Life Records,” by Louis Kossuth; “Memoirs,” by, Miss Martineau; Earl Russell's voluminous ‘Auto biographical Recollections,” General Garibaldi’s “Story of His Life,’ and the narrative by Pius IX. of “The Life of a Pope.” Maem: has yublished “The Life of St, Teresa,’ who was enrolled among the doctors of the Roman Chureh at a Period when women's mghts were un- dreamed of, The book is, in great part, an abridgment of the Rollandist account of St, Teresa. of 425us, who lived 1515-1582, i Miss Anna Blackwell, of Paris, has published, under the title of “The Spirit's Book, containing the Princi ples of Spiritist Doctrine, Through Various Mediums, collected by Allan Kardee,"a summary of the Spiritual ist philosophy, The book Teached a gale of 120,000 copies in French, and 1ts chief novelty is its advocacy of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls, In France the telegraphic service has yielfed in the past year an excess of $400,000 over expenses, The year before oxpenses and receipts balanced, but always previously there was a deficit, Thus it appears that cheap despatches do develop an increased use of the wires; but it takes longer to get the effect here than it did to get the equivalent effect in cheap postage. “There docs not exist in English any passably com | | plete or accurate account of Law's operations,” says the Tribune. For our contemporary's information we wil mention that M. Theirs wrote up that story fully, ant | thatan Enghsh translation of bis work was published t» this city, In a rohyst octavo, many years ago, by Red | field, if we remember correctiy. | The reign of shoddy in the book publishing world fa filustrated in the increasing use of ‘“feltine,” a super. | ficial imitation of book cloth made of colored paper, and of “leatherette,” also a paper imitation of embossed leather. Both materials are pronounced worthless 1 the London Aookseller, hooks bound in thei soos cracking in the joints and entirely wanting the supple ness and elasticity of leather, «