The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1875, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1y, 1875.-QUADRUPLE -SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD] %~ Yorm-wnat 1 us ana what 1 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henap will be sent free of postage. apelin All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PLM ES LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS COFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. NO, 262 TO-MORROW. ‘S$ OPERA HOUSE, Corn af 1TON & REED'S DA Bwenty-third siree MINSTRELS, ac 5 P.M. OLY? RE, ig 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, M.; closes at 10:45 P.M PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, at5 P.M. Mr. and Mrs, Florence. 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GHTY DAYS, at 82. My SAN FRANCIS MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, ars P.M. wher of Twenty-ninth street, | GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—RABAGAS, at 8 P.M; closes ai 10°90 P. M. AMERIC. Third avenue and Sixty-shi NEW YORK, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool, cloudy and rainy, with high northeast winds and pos» sibly gales off the coast. Wat Strret Yestexpay.—Gold rose from 116} to 117 and closed at 116%. Erie advanced from 19} to 20}. Other stocks showed a declining tenden Tae Ixpran Fravps.—Two conflicting re- ports may be expected from the Red Cloud Commission. One honest, unanimous report would be better, but that is too much to expect. Let both the apology and the cen- sure be given to the country as soon as pos- sible. It will judge fairly between Secretary Delano and his accusers. Tae War 1x Cusa.—About six hundred Spanish cavalrymen have sailed for Cuba, This charge of the six hundred is likely to be | as disastrous as the famous one of Balaklava. Cuba has been the grave of many a brave Spanish soldier, and Spain might well ex- | claim to her monarch, as did Cmsar to his | captain, ‘“‘Varus! Varus! what hast thou done with my legions ?” Suangey’s Movements.—There is no obvi- ous reason why Sharkey should go to Jamaica, but we suppose it was because he was not allowed to stay any longer in Cuba. It is well known that the Wandering Jew wanted to spend all of his time in Peris, but cireum- stances over which he had no control com- pelled him to travel. The necessity of con- tinually moving on is one of the little in- convenicnces to which murderers are fre- quently subje Tue Emprnon’s NEX.—It is not prob- able that the journey of the Emperor William to Italy is determined by political reasons. It seems to have been ordered by his doctors, but as the Kaiser cannot go to Italy without visiting the King the two monarchs may have | 2 personal talk over the expected European war. Thus His Imperial Majesty may kill two birds with one stone, and at once pro- Jong his own life and shorten that of many of his subje Tux Fasr Mats.—Postmaster General Jewell has fitly complimented Colonel Thomas A. Scott and William H. Vanderbilt for the success of the fast mails on their respective roads. He indicates the magni- tude of the enterprise very neatly in saying that no other country than ours, with the exception of Russia, can run postal cars “three thousand miles at a stretch without running off the ed He believes this rapid transportation marks an epoch in our progress and already perceives its advan- tages. If the Postmaster General had ever tried the Henarp lightning train to Niagara hhe would not be so much astonished at the success of our plan. In the demonstration of the fact that a whole day could be gained in transporting the mails the Hinatp resem- bled Columbus, who discovered America. In the application of our system to the postal department Mr, Jewell resembles the enter- prising people who emigrated to this coun- try and profited by the opportunity. | be a habitable city for the poor man. Might Be. We publish a letter from an intelligent correspondent presenting various considera- tions in reference to the present condition of New York and many pertinent suggestions as to what the city might be. The picture drawn by our correspondent of the city as it has survived the Tammany Ring is dreary and dismal enough, nor do we think it over- drawn. When we see what has been done by two administrations—the administra- tion of robbery under Tweed and Connolly and the administration of imbecility under Wickham and Green—-we may well believe that the great city has been hardly used. We have a debt larger than the aggregate debt of twenty-one English cities. According to a recent authority, Lon- don, with a population of 3,266,987, has a debt about one-fifth as large as that of New York, with a population not more than one-third of that of London. This | indebiedness in five years has increased | over a hundred millions of dollars, Thus | in 1870 it was $54,436,180, in 1875 it is $157,578,391. To show for this vast ex- penditure we have only the Central Park. In all the other essentials of a great metropo- lis we are lacking. Our streets are un- healthy, dangerous, unsightly. We have no piers worthy of the name. We have no system of rapid transit, with the exception of a little struggling line on the west side of the island. The journey from the Battery to Harlem in midwinter is almost as tedious and much more uncomfortable than a journey from Cort- landt street fery to Philadelphia. In various wards we have fever nests, in the shape | of undrained flats and imperfect sewage. | Our public buildings are few and shabby. Our Court House is a monument of rapacity piled upon our indebtedness with nothing to show for it except a bundle of law suits in the hands of Mr. O'Conor, and a crowd of richly endowed lawyers fighting in the courts. But we trust we have not for- gotten this lesson of the Tammany régime. We hope that there is public spirit and honesty and courage enough in the people to manage their own affairs and to see that the execution of this great work is intrusted to competent and honest men. We have long been accustomed to despise our neighboring city of Philadelphia as a slow, pastoral, sluggish town, but every day shows indications of a new life in that city. Buildings are springing up in all directions. Streets are opened, colleges and public build- ings, institutions of charity and science are in process of erection. Fairmount Park is much larger and more attractive than our Central Park, and, to crown all, the citizens of Philadelphia, almost single handed, with the exception of the aid they have received from their own State, are preparing for an exhibi- tion which is to celebrate before the world the glory and prosperity and advancement of the American nation, Yet at this time New York, with infinitely more wealth than Philadelphia and with as much capacity, let us trust, for self- government and great deeds, lies in the rut, stagnant and dormant, growing worse and worse from day to day, a disgrace to its own citizens and a stigma to the nation, The suggestions of our correspondent are worthy of the gravest reflection. We fervently hope they will not be as seed sown upon barren ground, but that out of this unfortunate and disastrous condition New York, in emulation of her genius and historic fame, may rise up in her strength and make herself the worthy metropolis of a great nation, and crime. At its side, in striking contrast, as if to show the difference between the city and the general government, we have the magnificent Post Office, which we owe to the bounty of the latter. Take any one of our avenues or any of the cross streets, or any of the downtown parks, and | we find them torn up, broken and filled with stagnant water. The streets lack repair. We see wood and stone and asphaltum in the same block, and all running into decay. This is because our city has been governed not for the good of the people by men who accept public trusts for the honor they bestow, but by thieving vagabonds and des- | perate politicians who regard New York very much as the pirates of the Spanish Main were wont to regard the specie-bearing ships of Mexico and Peru. Of course we cannot go on in this way. Ii is profitless to lament the past or to expect any restitution from those who brought New York into this condition, especially so long as our laws are so framed that the monumen- tal robber of the nineteenth century has only to pay half a million dollars stolen from the treasury to lawyers, leeches and black- mailers to escape not only with personal im- punity, but with the absolute possession and enjoyment of his stolen gains. Our concern is the city. If we have lost a hundred mill- ions of dollars in the last five years and our debt returns show that we have increased the burdens to that amount we must enter upon a new policy. If New York will main- tain iis commercial supremacy, if it will continue to be in fact as in name the metrop- olis of the North American continent, it must map out a new career of development | and progress. Our first duty is to make the streets comfortable and convenient. We have tried all manner of experiments in the last few years in wood, stone and various chemical compounds. Experience shows that we need a system of macadamized pave- ments, especially on Fifth avenue, the | main highway to the Park. The macadam- | ized system is in the long run the most | economical. Every year’s wear only im- | proves it, if it is properly managed at first. | A good macadamized road running from Washington square to Central | Park would be a public convenience, the value of which cannot be too highly esti- mated. The other streets should be paved in the same manner or with some well tested, durable substance. Then we should have a system of piers and docks and ware- houses. The commerce which we lost dur- | ing the war will in time come back to us. With as fine a harbor as any on the Atlantic coast we have scanty accommodations, Portland, Norfolk, Baltimore and Charles- ton are disputing our commercial prece- dence. They are making every effort to | divert our trade to their own markets. Al- thongh the task may appear a wild one any | such effort is not to be despised, especially when we remember that fifty years ago we were not first in the race.. The position we wrested from other cities may be taken in its turn from us. Above all things we must have rapid transit. Without this New York can hardly Rapid transit is as necessary as air and breathing spaces. We have grown on and | on in the density of population until the | lower wards of this island are packed. The | poor man must necessarily live in this con- | tracted quarter because he is denied access to the open regions beyond. These regions, surpassed by none in beauty and salubrity, might with a proper system of rapid transit be reached in a few minutes and become the centres of a large and flourishing population, | We should have a system so adequate that | ‘the laboring man could leave his working | place at the Battery and be at his home in ' New Rochelle, Yonkers, Hempstead or Eliza- | beth within twenty minutes. A well built | steam line running up the Third avenne Playing at War in Germany, The map of Europe is covered so thickly with the names of battlefields that it re- sembles a palimpsest or parchment on which the original writing has been obliterated by other writing, which has crossed and re- it till it is like. a lady’s letter. You cannot write the name of a new battle on that famous map without invading the space of an old one. Al the plains of Ger- many especially are historic, but there is no crossed ground more profoundly interesting in the | annals of war than that which surrounds the town of Liegnitz, in Silesia. This is an ancient town, which has been for centuries the scene of contending legions. In the neighborhood, more than six hundred years ago, was fought by its Polish rulers a great battle with the Mongols. Frederick the Great there defeated the Austrians on August 15, 1760, and Blucher on the banks of its river, the Katz- bach, won a victory over the French, August 26,1813. As for other battles fought th«re- about, they are too numerous to mention, and probably more than half will remain forgot- ten until the slaughtered armies shalf rise at the resurrection. But Liegnitz is endeared to Prussia by many modern memories, ever since Frederick the Great rudely robbed the | Austrian of Silesia. This territory was, therefore, well chosen as the scene of the great antumn manceuvres of the Prussian army—those mimic battles which are described to-day by our special cable despatches from Liegnitz, and illustrated by our map. It is sacred ground to the German soldier. It is fall of inspiration to the com- mander. For those heights and valleys of the Katzbach are not new theatres of war, as were the fields of Gettysburg and the glooms of the Virginia Wilderness to us, but scenes made familiar by the conflicts of history. Every road, vale, stream, hill or forest, | bridge or ford around Liegnitz is known to the Prussian general, so that the country is laid out before him like a chessboard, upon which he is to display his genius for defence or attack, The manmuvres of the two great army corps, last week, might indeed be compared to the playing over again, for the hundreth time, some celebrated game of chess, and studying its variations. No absolutely new plans of attack or defence could be invented, but each commander could apply the new theo- ries of war and the new resources of armies to the solution of an ancient militery prob- lem. The experiment, according to our well informed correspondent, was completely suc- cessful. One army defended the heights near Rothkirch gallantly, but the other, at the end of six days’ maneuvring, triumphantly won. The valley of the Oder was dark with smoke by day and red with camp fires at night; rivers were crossed, bridges built suddenly, assaults and flank movements were made; the Emperor rode like a mortal Providence, secure between the contending hosts; the foreign Ambassa- dors trembled, and both armies embraced at the end of the brief campaign and swore eternal brotherhood. Happy would it be for Germany if all her wars were to achieve bloodless glories like these ; if her fair haired heroes should here- after only play with the iron blade of Her- mann, as the Cupids in the old picture wreath the sword of Mars with flowers, But this canngt be. Beneath the splendor of such royal games dark purposes are hid- den. Real wars, fierce, merciless, colossal, were rehearsed in these magnificent mancn- vres. and the far-off tramp of approaching armies come faintly from future Europe, and many gallant soldier whose heart beat high at Liegnitz, when he won the ap- proval of his Emperor, is already marked by fate as the prey of the vulture and the | wolf. ‘or the Eighth avenue toward Westchester .the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge and \ a steam line running over into the beautiful | region beyond Brooklyn, and the drilling of 'atunnel under the Hudson River, ar parts of the problem of rapid transit ith Tux Woven Coat.--A socicty that buys coal at wholesale prices and sells it to its members at cost, or atan advance sufficient to cover expenses, is very useful. It should be organized in the summer and the money | all | should be then paid in by instalments, This | thieves and all kinds of adventurers to | plan we have repeatedly suggested, but as Already the mufiled beat of drums, * The Coming Revival. Moody and Sankey have begun their work in this country in good earnest. They say they are led in all their movements by the answers which come to prayer, and if this be true Mr. Tyndall's prayer test has been put to practical trial with very umportant re- sults. Whether we stand ready to admit or deny their claim that they are wholly gov- erned by suggestions which come from be- yond the veil, we cannot help conceding the point that they are ruled by common sense. Instead of entering our large cities with a great flourish of trumpets and proclaiming beforehand the victories they proposed to achieve, they have gone quietly to work in some of the smaller villages to find out how much the average North American citizen wants, what is called in ecclesiastical lan- guage, a change of heart. It is safe to re- gard these smaller meetings as a fair portent of the future ; as barometrical indications of the state of the spiritual atmosphere. ‘Po be sure there are people who eayil and criticise in surly mood. This fact is, per- haps, a favorable symptom. Some people cannot see and others will not. There are men who are born with a constitutional an- gularity which destroys the focal point of every picture. The general effect is to them blurred and marred. They were foreordained to find fault with everything, and they fulfil their mission ina way that is very compli- mentary to the peculiar and original mole- cule from which they were evolved. It is not surprising that even Northfield, a quiet and unobtrusive village, in which the great revivalists held a monster meeting, should be supplied with its share of this element of sodiety, Wise heads were shaken and omi- nous predictions were uttered to the effect that very little good will be done in this country by either Moody or Sankey, or even the Lord, in any attempt of this kind, The respectable and well-to-do people did not go to the meetings and the poor people would not, Still the house was crammed to over- flowing, which proves conclusively that the middle class at least has neither lost any- thing in sense or numbers, ow, it is perfectly plain to all critical ob- servers of men and things that these evange- lists are good, honest and earnest laborers, and that their sole aim is the spiritual wel- fare of the community. They may not be polished in utterance as some city orators, not quite golden-mouthed like Chrysostom, not always correct in their conceptions of grammar, but they are true and self-sacrific- ing, and have a worthy purpose in all their efforts. That conceded, we can forgive many | blunders. | New York needs a revival, and the Church | will undoubtedly give it a warm welcome. The pulpit has never yet equalled its own idea of excellence. It has been timid and | timeserving. It has not rebuked the evils of | the day ina bold ané@ chivalric fashion for | fear that some of its broad aisle pews would |, be for sale on Monday morning. If preach- | ers are in the pay of rich parishioners that is one thing, and in that case we advise great caution and the eloquent use of glittering generalities ; but if preachers are in the pay of the Lord let the people hearfrom them. What- | ever evils exist in the community, whether they ave of a political or a social character, let them be rebuked in tones not made timid by afear that the salary will not be paid. These evangelists will, we believe, wake up the ministry, and that is equivalent to waking up everybody. ‘There is no compro- | mise ina downright revival discourse. Wher- | ever it hits it hits hard. The great body of | the people respects that kind of work, and looks with contempt on the trip hammer that | is padded with velvet. If Moody and San- key come to New York this winter give them full swing, and help them in every possible | way. Put the muscle of the combined clergy | into their arms, and the eloquence of all the | city pastors into their lips, without a cavil, or a quarrel, or a criticism. We have no doubt that this will be done. | Scores of churches have already been offered \ to these gentlemen, and the clergy, as a | whole, stand ready to further the movement | | in every legitimate way. To our minds the | spirit of the Church will be thoroughly | tested by its reception of this bold, manly | preacher, and this sweet-voiced singer. The | Evangelical Alliance will have its best con- | clusion in the generous hand-shake with which Moody and Sankey will be welcomed when they come this way. “The Men in the Gap.” It is interesting to observe the anxiety with which the leaders of the different parties are looking around for ‘‘good men” to place on their State tickets. When a po- litical party is in a bad way the leaders, the real, active politicians who have made | all the money and shared all the spoils, retire into the background and urge ‘‘good men” “to the front.” When an election is doubtful the politician is anxious to have the best men “stand in the gap.” The Saratoga Convention imagined that it could put into “the gap” men like William M. Evarts, E. D. Morgan and John Bigelow. It never occurred to the Custom House in- spectors and tidewaiters that when they had | | absolute power in the State such men were | | not wanted. When it was proposed to nom- inate George William Curtis for Governor, at atime when nomination looked promising, \ his throat was publicly cut by Charles 8. Spencer, and his body was tumbled out of | the Convention without ceremony. Those were the days when the party was powerful | | and strong, when ‘good men” were | not wanted. Now in the dark days the | Custom House inspectors piteously call upon | | them to ‘‘come to the front.” | We see the same spirit in dem- | | ocratie party. When the democ were | | absolute in New York they were satisfied to | elect Tammany Hall thieves and Canal Ring | the | power, It wasa democratic administration which the prosperity of New York is indis- to whether it has been acted upon by any , which robbed New York. But now the party solubly connected. A programme of this kind, vast as it may seem, is really a small matter when we think | large number of our citizens we are not in- | formed. Such a society is not a charity ; is simply a pro yay ent organization by y | is on its good behavior. It is fighting fora | Presidential prize, and we have all manner | of “good men,” ‘solid men,” who are asked | distress only to throw them aside in their day of power. They seek Mr. Evarts and Mr. Bigelow and Mr. Morgan and Mr. Curtis when it is necessary to carry a heavy burden up a rocky hill, but when everything is smooth they are not needed. Opinions of the Religious Press. ‘The topic of chief importance to the re- ligious press, and the one on which they com- ment more generally than any other this week, is the relation of the Catholic Church to political parties, and especially as affected by the recent election in New Jersey. The Examiner and Chronicle thinks that little State is too much for Rome, and that it has made it clear that the American people are a long distance from submitting to the impe- rious demands of an alien priesthood, and that such will always be the verdict in every similar case, The only danger the Hraminer apprehends from Catholies in this country is from the apathy of Protestant Christians and those who from conviction act with them in opposition to Romanist pretensions. The Christian at Worle thinks that in the matters involved between Protestants and Catholics in New Jersey and elsewhere there is but one course open for the consistent Protestant —the enemy must be met and foiled with the very weapon he has chosen, the ballot. The Observer, after a careful and exhaustive review of the controversy in New Jersey, adds that these questionsare to come up all over the country, and it feels assured that the people need only to be informed in regard to the designs and plans of the Romgn- ists in order to set their seal upon them. The free public school system must be main- tained, and neither the Roman Catholic nor any other religion must be sustained by ap- propriations from the public funds. The Christian Advocale approves of the New Jer- sey constitutional amendments, and thinks that, left to their own free choice, without undue interference by the professional politicians, the American people may be trusted that they will demand good and wholesome legislation, with wise and upright administration. The Advocate was not sur- prised, though it was greatly grati- fied, with the large majority by which these amendments were carried and a stop thus put to corrupt legislation in that State. It now waits for a similar re- sponse from Ohio, The vangelist thinks other States as well as New Jersey will do well to have an eye on the matter which called forth the defeat of the Catholics in New Jer- sey, and expresses its belief that no great po- litical party can afford to champion such a cause as theirs. The Baptist Weekly says that not a day too soon has the republican party recognized the idea of meeting an issue that | the Romanists are determined to force upon us, and which must be decided by an appeal i to a special yote of the people. Not as Prot- | estants alone, it says, but as American citi- zens, sincerely desiring the preservation of our institutions, under the protection of an advancing intelligence, and with no regard to any sectarian ends, we are to-day called | upon to settle the vital question of the per- petuity of our free school system, and to ‘‘de- | nounce as a crime against liberty and repub- lican institutions any project for a sectarian division or perversion of the school fund of the State.” Let it be done. The Tablet, | citing the case of New Jersey, expresses its | sorrow to find much more unanimity in | bigotry than in religion among Protestants. It is not religion, it says, which should be eliminated from politics, but bigotry; and Protestants have by their bigotry been led to take sides with those who wish to break up religious societies by throwing impediments in the way of their existence. By the adop- tion of the constitutional amendments in | New Jersey, the Tablet thinks, Protestant in- stitutions and churches will suffer much more*than any Catholic congregation, how- ever poor. The Path of the Hurricane, The disastrous hurricane which has visited Galveston, Texas, and threatened to | overwhelm the city, has commenced its northerly journey and will soon be upon us. After sweeping over the West Indian islands | it followed a direct westerly course until it | reached the lanl on the Texan coast, when, | guided by the Gulf Stream, it began to curve northward and eastward, until it has already arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi. Thence it will cross Florida and, following the Atlantic coast line, will sweep along over the seaboard cities, visiting Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore, New York, New London and the Maine coast in succession, | and will finally become lost to observation | after it passes northeasterly over Nova Scotia. Present indications, verified by the orders for cautionary storm signals from the Signal | Service Office, go to show that the storm will | take this cgast line in its progress north. The extraordinary rise of the tide at Galveston presents a phenomenon both interesting and instructive. The velocity of the strong current of the Gulf Stream flowing in the direction of the storm track, and doubtless influencing the course of the meteor, has been | so accelerated by the pressure of the wind as | to carry an enormously increased volume of | water into the basin of the Gulf of Mexico, which has cansed a piling up of the waters at the point where the current changes diree- tion to the eastward. Galveston is located at this point, and consequently re- ecived the full weight and volume of the storm wave. The direction of the gales experienced by the ship Marcia Greenleaf in | latitude 25 deg. 28 min., longitude 84 deg. 40 min., shows that the vessel was caught in the northern semicircle of the storm during its westerly progress, the centre being near | | Havana, Cuba. The observations of the Sig- | nal Service Department have become so gen- eral and systematized that the resulis are proving of incalculable benefit to commerce, Vessels ready for sen are no longer despatched | from port without a careful consultation of tle | weather reports and probabilities, and so ac- | eurate are the deductions of the Signal Office , from the mass of meteorological data daily | sapplied from all parts of the United States by | | of what America has already done toward the | poor people may secure winter coal at mod- | to “come to the front,” and ‘stand in the | skilled observers that the weather prognosti- | | development of our vast republican empire. | erate rates. It may be too late to act upon | gap.” It isamusing to see these tricks on the | cations are absolutely correct in ninety-five | | The energies of our people are equal to any | that suggestion now, but our charitable in- | part of politicians, IL! it showed eny real | eases out of a hundred. We are now enabled | task necessary to their own happiness and | stitutions should do something to bi up | awakening, any sense of the fitness of good | to determine the path of a storm by simply the atnoss of their city. What we | the “bucket” system by which coal is re- | men for offtce, we would accept it as the be- | noting the point where i# first makes its ap- | fear that, as in the pnst, bad | tailed in small quantities, and which is | ginning of a new era in our polities; but we | pearance. It will be observed, for instance, | men may obtain control and we | nothing more than a robbery of the very | are afraid that no such advantage is to come. | from the telegraphic weather reports from the shall hava another hundred millions | poorest alasses in the city. Politifians seek good men in their day of | central office in Washington, that while the | danger signals were ordered at New Orleans and Mobile, in the South, they were also dis- played at Eastport, Me., in the North, while the intermediate points were not sigualled until the course of the storm northward from the Gulf was determined. The two tracks _ open—namely, the Mississippi and Ohio val- leys and the Atlantic coast—both have com- mon termini, and until the storm entered on either it would be impossible to predict which track would be followed. This has now been determined and the danger signals are flying at all points along the line. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Since Messrs. Moody and Sankey have begun their evangelistic labors in Massa- chusetts, and are expected among us ere long, Mr. McCarthy will to-day discuss one of their doctrines embodied in the phrase, “Sheltered behind the blood,” the truth of which he doubts. And in view of their coming, and of the approaching revival season, Mr. Lloyd already sees a vision of slain souls, as the result of the work to be done through God, the strength and por- tion of believers. But such a result must be the reward of faith, as it will be presented by Mr. Hawtliorne. We may have various ideas of the uses of church going, but Mr. Alger will give his to-day, and define the place of the pulpit in modern society; and Mr. Hepworth, who has returned, ready for work, will give ws his reasons why a revival is needed in this city and how Christ draws all men to him- self, and, as Mr. Ganse will show, makes friends for himself here among men. Mr. Leavell, in view of the brevity of time, will inquire what constitutes unbelief, and find- ing the cause and the elements of the disease, will be able to suggest the remedy. Mr. Kennard believes the Christian to be a tem- ple in whgm conscience, the voice of God, is heard, and to which attention should be given now, because, according to Mr. Light- bourn’s thought, when Christ returns to earth He wiil look for pure religion, and where shall He find it if not in believers? The resurrection will receive consideration from Mr. Loutrel, while Mr. Taylor will bring Lazarus out of the grave and young men out of the fire if so he may by death or life by destruction and salvation induce some to turn to God. And if all these things fail, the man who’ calls himself the Messenger of God and who claims the right to pronounce woe to the world, will open the sealed book and declare the events that are to result therefrom ; so that, whether men will hear or forbear, yet shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. Waar Arrorney Grneran Prarr Taings.— Attorney General Pratt tells a Hrraxp cor- respondent that he does not think Gover- nor Tilden the only man in the State who will not steal. He does not think Mr. Fair- child, nominated at Syracuse to be his suc- cessor, the ablest lawyer in the State; and he does think that a man who is open, square and aboveboard, and scorns decep- tion, treachery, ingratitude and under- hand dealing, is quite as honest as one who simply refuses to pick a pocket. The opinions of an Attorney General are always valuable, and in this case they are especially interesting to a number of people, politicians and others, to whom we recom- mend their perusal in our correspondent’s letter elsewhere. Tur Powers or Evnrope find it easier to make a quarrel than to end one, and it is not surprising that Austria, Germany and Italy despair of reconciling the Bosnian insurgents and Server Pacha, the Turkish Commis- sioner, England, France and Russia still have hopes of pacifying the Herzegovinians, but we are unable to see whether they are well founded. One important question is whether all of the Powers are sincere? It is rarely the case that a war, like a wind, does not blow some government good. Tre Constrvutionan Convention at Raleigh, .N. C., yesterday considered a number of or- dinances relative to the judiciary and re- jected a resolution to adjourn sine die. The | determined war between the two parties re- tards the progress of the work. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Proudhon called strong-minded women “crowing hens.” Rev. Dr. B. Sadtler, of Baltimore, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Linbibatrich and Orescoviteh are the names of the Herzegovinian leaders. Professor William Everett, of Harvard College, is re- siding at the Everett House. They propose to use the velocipede in the Italian army, and are training men to the service, President Grant will open the New Jersey State Agri« cultural Fair at Waverley on Tuesday next, General George J. Magee, of Schuyler county, New York, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rear Admiral Henry K. Hoff, United States Navy, ig among the late arrivals at the Everett House, Count Litta, Italian Chargé d’ Affaires at Washington, has taken up his residence at the Brovoort House, Poor Miss Dickinson! Her movements are chron- feled now, and she is always “the heroine of the Baker case." Mr. Orlow W. Chapman, Superintendent of the Insur- ance Department, arrived at the Fifth Aveuue Hotel last evening from Albany. Hans Tammer, an Austrian, is exhibiting in Parisa canine quartet, He has four dogs, and he has taught | each dog to bark in two notes, and each dog’s notes are different from those of the other dogs. He thus com- mands eight notes, and gives “Le donne mobile” and gome other piece: Major Barney’s discovery in telegraphing, with some improvements made by M. Godener, a Frenchman, Was experimented upon in Belgium lately. One operator sent simultaneously to Ostend and Antwerp, from Brus- sels the same despatch at the rate of 600 words @ min- From Ostend to Brussels a despatch was sent at ute, the rate of 1,092 words a minute, | They organized a balloon ascension for a village festi- val in Frauce, and the balloonist determined to take up with him his little boy, aged eight, The boy was in the basket and the father was making some final prepara- tions before entering, when the boy cast loose the last cord that held the balloon and went italone, He has not been heard from since. Gone to join several ovber balloonists. Bill Bowline comes and ho says to me, He gays to me, he say's, says he, “What is the Rule of the Koad at soa”? 1 says to him, says I (that’s me) “Whether ashore, or whether af sea, ‘The Rude of phe Road, folk sooms to agree, Ig to endionly launch in eternity , Any one not quite handy to s If the helm turned to starboard or port should be, ‘As wo learn by a late catastrophe,” —/unch. Insurers have no friends. London companies insured for £6,400 the cargo of the German ship Turandot, taken by the French in 1870, and they paid the insurance; but £4,000, the proceeds of the sale of the cargo as prize, was oventually paid to Germany by France. Imme- diately the insurers claimed it as theirs, but Germany says she knows no one but the original owners, and the insurers, appealing to their own government, are told that Germany (9 right