The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1875, Page 6

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RMANIA THEATRE, ar Irving pluce.—RABAGAS, at 8 M.; closes at 10°30 P.M. AMERICAN INS Whird avenue and Sixty-third st UTE, Day and evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue—THE FLYING BCUD, at 8 P.M. Mr. George ore. > OPERA HOUSE, eal third street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON & REED'S IN 3 jones at 10 P.M. OLYMPIC THES mo Broadway.—VARJETY, at 5 closes at 10:45 AY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1875, e a a mae From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, with, possibly, local rains. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—Gold advanced to 117} and closed at 117}. Erie was the feature in stocks. Money was in more active request at four and five per cent. Tue Roman Catuoric Synop at Maynooth has concluded its labors, which were princi- pally devoted to the subject of education in Ireland and the advancement of religion. Rewer ror Texas.—We hear from authen- tic sources that there will be a great deal of suffering at Galveston and on the Texas coast this winter. We shall cheerfully re- ceive any contributions that may be sent to us for the unfortunate people and hand it over to the proper parties. Knoxanp.—A peaceful solution of the dis- turbances in Khokand is probable, Russia being satisfied that the son of the deposed Khan had no part in the'recent aggressions and is willing to recognize him as the rightful ruler of the Khanate. It is possible that the Czar is more willing to encourage quiet in ‘Asia because he has reason to expect trouble in Ennope. Tue Grorc1 Insvrrection.—A despatch | from Atlanta, Ga., announces the arrest of Joo Morris, the leader of the late insurrec- | tion in that State, for whom a reward of five hundred dollars had been offered by the Governor. circumstance that he should have been in communication with the United States District Attorney for several days prior to his capture, and that a Tnited States Judge should have refused (permission to the Sheriff to enter a room in the Court House where the criminal lay con- cealed. The almost invariable sympathy manifested for negro criminals in the South by federal officials would not seem to tend of late. Tae Brack His Covxcn.—The Grand | ‘a right angle toward the right hand. The Council of the United States Commissioners nnd the Indians was to have been held yes- | terday on the White River. As there had Deen several postponements it is likely that the “big talk” began at the appointed time and place. Red Cloud seems dissatisfied with the action of the other chiefs, but will probably take part in the deliberations. The Commissioners, our correspondent says, pre- | so as to leave but little time for the removal It is a somewhat remarkable | | shipmasters who have been familiar with the | sixty miles from Galveston, and totally | greatly toward the promotion of the era of | good feeling, of which so much has been said | | hind | cirrus scud, familiar to meteorologists, is a NEW YURKK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2], 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Cyclone. We did not underestimate the tromendons energy of this terrible visitor in our articles giving the particulars of its progress, and now that its approach is heralded by the warning signals at all our Atlantic seaports we may form a pretty clear idea of its de- structive power from the telegraphic réports arriving from points on the Gulf coast, where the first evidences of its foree became appar- ent. The advance of this meteor at the period of the autumnal equinox, or .that in which the sun’s apparent course southward crosses the Equator may lead Four cents per copy. | t the supposition that we are experiencing an equinoctial storm generated by a change of meteorological conditions dependent on the position of the sun, and that it isa sea- sonable visitation only, perhaps, of more than ordinary violence ; but in this view we may err, because the tempest that is now ap- proaching our latitude is more likely to be due to a long continuance of those atmos- pheric disturbances which seem to have extended during the summer months, and in an almost uniform degree, over a wide zone of the Northern Hemisphere. Telegrams from India, Central and South- ern Europe, and from the Mississippi Valley region of this Continent, have reached us simultaneously, giving accounts of disas- trons floods arising from extraordinary rain- falls. All previously established rules that were believed to govern meteorological varia- tions have been rendered almost value- less when applied to the investigation of phenomena that bear a relation to the general condition of the atmosphere similar to those attendant on volcanic convulsions to the earth. As already stated in the Heraup, the coming storm has had its origin in the northerly edge of the zone of equatorial calms, where an extended area of low barometrical press- ure was created by the enormous evapora- tion, and this atmospheric condition being in antagonism with the areas of high barom- eter in the more northerly latitudes, a west- erly movement with the prevailing wind took place, and which was accompanied by the inevitable. rotary motion of the air around the centre of disturbance, caused by the constantly changing atmospheric temperature incidental to the progress of the meteor, and to the effort to re-establish an equilibrium of pressure be- tween the areas of high and low barometer. Having a clear sea path, which offered the least obstruction to the advance of the storm, the rotary motion of the air increased with the westward progress of the storm and had attained a fearful speed when the cyclone reached the Cuban coast. From thence the storm travelled under the influence of the Gulf Stream, which warm current opened up for it what might be termed a line of least resistance, or a track of atmospheric humid- ity more nearly approaching that of the storm area itself than that of the adjoining waters. Hence we find that it travelled on the curve of a parabola the apex of which was located near Galveston, which city neces- sarily received the full shock of the cyclone, and for a longer period than any other point along its track. There are in this partic- ular storm certain well recognized fea- tures which mark it as a genuine cyclone, as distinct from the class of meteors known as tornadoes. The fury of its rotary move- ment is in marked disproportion to the actual rate of advance along its path—that is, the velocity of the wind revolving around the centre of disturbance is immense, while the progress of the meteoritself is very slow. In all storms in the Northern Hemis- phere the direction of revolution is from right to left, or against the sun, and, as a consequence, the direction of deflection when the storm impinges on mountain chains or on barriers of high at- mospheric pressure will be northeasterly. Consequently, we find that all storms on our Continent, whether they come from the northwest or, like this cyclone, from the south, tend to the northeast, and invariably pass over Nova Scotia or through the valley of the St. Lawrence in their progress toward the high latitudes of the North Atlantia. We have already traced in our articles the path of the cyclone and explained how the Signal Service Office has carefully observed the progress of these destructive visitors and warned the shipping of their approach. Our prognostications have been fully verified by the latest telegrams from the South. Some idea of the extraordinary violence of the gale | can be formed when we find that it caused such extensive destruction of ships actually lying at their docks. We learn that one steamer, the Beardstown, was broken to pieces at her wharf, while other vessels were driven through the great pile bridge of the railroad érossing Galveston Bay, demolish- ing large sections of that necessarily sub- stantial structure and completely wrecking the colliding ships. The sea seems to have been lifted bodily and deposited on the land, of goods or the saving of exposed build- ings. Nothing in the history of Gulf storms compares with this terrific cyclone. Old navigation of the Gulf for+years refused to leave port during the gale that prevailed and in showing this commendable prudence they | certainly saved their ships from destruction. | One vessel, the Australia, while loading with | cotton in the outer anchorage, was forced | from her moorings and | driven ashore, wrecked. The force of the wind biowing in the storm clouds being positively charged in the process of their formation need a con- tact with the negatively charged surface of the earth to produce any interchange of elec- tricity and the phenomenon of lightning. We may, therefore, look for an electric ac- companiment of the cyclone when it begins to pass over the land, and particularly if it approaches the Alleghany chain in its prog- ress north, The law of Atlantic storms is now Well gstablished, and it is only when one of un- exampled violence like that now sweeping along the coasts of the Southern States pre- sents itself that meteorologists are disturbed by the fear that their theories may be over- turned by some undiscovered fact bearing on the origin of these wonderful meteors. We feel reassured, however, when we know that hundreds of skilful observers acting in con- cert, and keenly alive to the importance of the task set before them, are watching the progress of these storms, and that every pre- caution is taken to guard our shipping from surprise and disaster. The dangers of navi- gation are yearly lessened by the labors of devoted men, who are constantly adding to that store of scientific knowledge which is the glory of our age. The Charley Ross Case. Everybody will be glad to hear that the trial of Westervelt for complicity in the fa- mous crime of the robber Mosher has re- sulted in his conviction on three counts of the indictment. He js found guilty of de- tention of the kidnapped child and of con- spiracy to extort money. There is only a sentimental difference between the guilt of carrying the little boy fway and that of keep- ing him away ; there is scarcely a difference that the law can recognize. It will, there- fore, probably be as satisfactory to justice that this culprit is convicted on three counts as it would have been if he had been con- victed on thirty-three ; and it can hardly be doubted that his conviction, in the form in which it has been obtained, will expose him to the fullest penalty of the law against his ‘offence. Perhaps, indeed, it is in one respect a subject of public congratulation that he was not convicted as an accomplice in the fact of abduction, but that his guilt rests on the equally criminal detention of the child, knowing him to have been stolen. At the time Charley Ross was stolen it was noted and much commented upon that the punish- ment for such an offence by the laws of Penn- sylvania was inadequate to its moral enor- mity, and that even if the kidnappers were caught the penalty they would suffer must be so light that it would seem farcically trivial to every one whose sympathies had been excited by the terrible story. If we re- member rightly the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture thought of this at its next session and imposed a much severer penalty on this offence. Under the general provision against ex post facto laws the penalty thus imposed by a statute enacted subsequently to the abduc- tion could not be applied as a punishment for that act; but every day of the detention subsequent to the passage of that act exposes to its penalties, for the detention is a con- stant constructive abduction. In the fact that one criminal in this case at last feels the hand of justice heavy on him the public will feel a satisfaction scarcely less than that it felt at the fate of Mosher; and the demon- stration thus made that the detention of the child may have unpleasant consequences cannot be without its effect on the minds of those who now have him in charge, if, as there is good reason to believe, he is still alive. ‘ Wuar Dors Tus Mran?—It is reported from Washington that the removal of Post- master Burt, in Boston, and the appoint- ment of Edward S. Tobey in his place is to be regarded as the begiuning of a new policy on the President's part. ‘It is understood to be the policy of the President hereafter, in filling important federal offices, to tender the positions to men of distinction, and by inviting such to accept office a class of officials ésteemed for something more than political influence may be induced to serve the community in which they live.” This is what we read. It seems a little late for the President to begin—but better late than never. But if he carries out a policy like this what will become of Delano? of Sim- mons, in Boston? of Packard and Casey, in New Orleans? of Shepherd, in Washington? of hundreds of his former favorites ‘every- where? However, their fate shall not trou- ble us. Let us have reform, by all means. The country needs it. Tae Rexations or Sexyia to Turkey.—The address of Prince Milan to the Servian Chamber of Deputies is secret, and the formal reply made yesterday takes no positive ground. But it’ is reported from Kragujevatz that a special address will be offered, in which the Honse will ask the government to declare war against Turkey. All recent events have tended to war. The Porte has asked the Servian goy- ernment if it will maintain neutrality ; but | even if it were willing to do so it is doubtful if it could restrain the people. There is an “irrepressible conflict” in the East, and no compromise can put an end to it. Instead of the great Powers being able to control the Eastern question in the interests of peace, it is more likely to drag them into war. How Cre Derms Law.—The Legislative | Committee now engaged in the investigation | of crime in New York was not needed to acircle around the storm centre increases as the centre is approached, and shipmasters determine the direction of the storm centre by directly facing the wind and then turning object being to escape from the circle of the storm the course of the ship is altered to a direction as nearly opposite that of the storm centre as possible. The approach of the cyclone is always indicated by a rapid fallof the barometer, while immediately be- it follows a barometric rise. The fer that the Indians should name their price | | detached clouds are driven before surface for the Black Hills country before making any proposition themselves. One important question may require all the casuistry of which the Commissioners are capable. It is, ‘Whether we should pay the Indians what the Black Hills are worth to ns or what they are worth to them, Between the two values is certain sign of a storm approach. These | currents and are followed by the heavy | masses of cumulus which form the imme- | diate surrounding of the storm it- self. The absence of any electric dis- play in the Texas cyclone is due more to its location on the sea coast than to the .Absance of etmannheric glectricity, begausa prove that the police and the officers of our courts and prisons are in constant collusion with the men it is their duty to punish; but the investigation is making that which was well known in the abstract notorious in the | concrete. Yesterday some very interesting | cases were examined. As oné of the wit- id, “Any man with mohey might feel pretty sure of getting away.” When the committee reports it will have a tale to tell of justice inNew York which will horrify the | whole country. | nesses | ‘Tz Rep Crovp Commisston will meet in | this city on October 4, when the report will be read and signed. It is said that the Commissioners agreed upon all its main points, which means whitewash. But as Secretary Delano is said to be only waiting for an official exoneration to enable him to resign, the labors of the Commission will not ve begn altowether in vain, The Fall River Strike. The conflict between labor and capital which is perpetually breaking out from time to time raises one of the most important questions of the period, and a question of which nobody has yet discovered the solu- tion, although it has engaged the minds of some of the wisest thinkers in Great Britain and this country. The freedom of labor is a right which cannot be disputed ; a man may work or not, as he pleases ; and if he prefers starvation to low wages, it is his own affair. He is at perfect liberty to starve and let his family starve if he makes that choice. The right of association is, perhaps, equally in- disputable. If two men, or any number of men, think fit to make an agreement that they will not work except at a certain rate of wages, it is a right which the law concedes to them. If they prefer no income to a small one they must bear the consequences. But when .they go further, when they ad: vance from persuasion to force, and by acts of intimidation and threats of violence com- pel other laborers to enter into their com- bination, they are on utterly indefensible ground. They violate the great principle of the freedom of labor on which alone their organization can be justified. All laborers have equal rights. Those who are forced to join a strike when their own free will would lead them to labor for such wages as they can get are the victims of an intolerable oppression, and if the evil continues to*grow the question will have to be considered whether it is not the duty of governments to interpose for its redress. A strike by the voluntary action of all who participate in it cannot be assailed in prin- ciple, however misguided it may be in point of expediency. It isalways a blunder when it fails to accomplish its object, and some- times a blunder when it succeeds. The Fall River strike, whose results were described ih the letter from that place which we printed yesterday, was an egregious mistake. When it had continued for six weekathe weavers returned and signified their willingness to resume work at reduced rates, but wished to make.conditions. The mill owners refuse the conditions, and the strike continues. The weavers have lost during this period not only the ten per cent reduction, but their whole wages, and many of them are brought to hunger, rags and beggary. If the compulsive unions were dissolved and the starving weavers permitted to act freely as individuals the greater part of them would be too glad to earn such wages as are offered. They would break the mon- strous usurping tyranny if they dared. It is pitiable that they first lent themselves as the dupes, and are now compelled to submit as the victims, of the designing men who have reduced them to abject slavery. They are suffering all the evils of slavery without its compensations. Slaves are fed, clothed, and sheltered by the masters who hold them in bondage; starvation, or the fear of it, never stares them in the face. A strike was never worse timed, or entered upon with so little judgment as this at Fall River. The long stagnation of business is likely to continue ; the market for cotton goods is narrowed and _ prices still falling ; the mill owners have little motive for turn- ing out more goods, and the operatives had no chance of success when they entered on 4 strike in such a condition of general business. A cold, hard winter is coming on, and if they were wise they would emanci- pate themselves from the tyranny of the unions that hold them in involuntary servitude and go to work. The time fora successful strike is when the market is good and the demand for goods so active that em- ployers cannot afford a stoppage of their mills. These Fall River weavers have mis- ealeulated every way, and the sooner they ac- knowledge their mistake the better it will be for them and their fellow sufferers. A Neglected Opportunity. The report of the interview between Mr. Kelly and the contending delegates at Syra- cuse, when they appeared before the Com- mittee on Credéntials, furnishes us food for reflection and amusement. ‘The first del- egation that asked to be heard was that headed by Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer, the editor of the Staats Zeitung. Mr. Ottendorfer isa mild, gentle, peace-respecting person, and s0, when he made his address, we are told that Mr. Kelly grew very angry and denounced him in fierce terms, to which Mr. Otten- dorfer made no reply. Then came the Adonis of the New York democracy, the O’Creamer, the descendant of that great monarch Heremon, son of Milesius, who now rests with God, and whose motto in the olden time was ‘‘Shannett aboo,” which means, in political Saxon, ‘Grab and hold,” who was personal and vindictive toward O'Kelly and used. severe phrases. But O'Kelly con- tented himself with a mild retort, evidently not wishing to arouse the leonine blood of | the Irish chief. Then came the O’Morrissey, who also denounced O'Kelly, but who was answered in a gentle and courteous manner. Now, if the O'Kelly will permit us to criticise him, we fear that his de- meanor in these interviews will injure him in the eyes of his followers. Why ‘should he have been haughty toward Otten- dorfer, but deferential toward O'Morrissey? Would it not have been better to have treated the innocent and gentle editor with courtesy and to have met the stalwart leader of the Shorthairs with vigor and resolution? There is nothing that will do more toward weaken- ing the power of O'Kelly over his followers than any exhibition of fear or any discrimi- nation toward opponents in the manner of warfare. We have contended that if O'Kelly and O'’Morrissey came to a fair, stand-up, open controversy, that the chances! were in favor of the O'Kelly coming out vie- torious. He has led a qnieter life than O’Morrissey, and he has kept away from Saratoga. Since his retirement from his tenure of office as Sheriff, that celebrated administration when Irishmen were hanged regardless of expense, O'Kelly has been strengthening his body and improving his | mind in European countries and in assidu- | ony devotion to his religious duties, Conse- | quently if the matter had come to the final test we believe that O'Kelly would have made away with O'Morrissey in a very short time. * On the whole, it would have been much better for O'Kelly to have shown his anger | the country in Congress, in 1862, that a legal Ottendorfer. Tho reputation that comes from bullying an editor is not so desirable as such as the ridiculous failure of the recent Detroit inflation meeting, to show that that which would have rested upon him if | neither the massof the people nor the really he had taken O'Morrissey up according to the rules of the London Prize Ring and knocked hig out of time. The Seat of “War” in the East. The revolt of the Christian subjects of the Sultan in Herzegovina has attracted atten- tion to a very obscure portion of the Turkish dominions in Europe. It would appear from the telegraphic reports that the émeue has assumed proportions and threatens com- plications that warrant serious speculation as to the result, because, like the Low Coun- tries, the land of the Sclave has been for centuries a centre of political disturbance from whigh a general war may at any mo- ment spread over Europe, A glance at the geographical and topographical features of the seat of ‘‘war” will enable our readers to form some estimate of the chances of the contending parties, so far as the physical chara¢ter of the scene of operations can affect the issue, assuming, of course, that the situation is as grave as it is reported to be and that the insurgents really mean fight. As far as natural advantages of position are to be considered as valuable to either side the insurgents have decidedly the best of it, because they fight with a familiar knowledge of the extremely difficult ground on which the Turkish army is compelled to operate in striving to reach itsenemy. The great mountain chain of the Illyrian Alps, which separates the territory of Austriano- Dalmatia from Turkey, has very few practica- ble passes for military operations, and all these are located within the disturbed dis- tricts. The river Narenta, flowing into the Adriatic, breaks through the mountains a short distance south of Mostar, the Turkish garrison town selected by the consular representatives of the advisory European Powers who will meddle in the business for their conference. The town of Trebigne, threatened by the insurgents, is located on the western side of the mountains, and is, therefore, almost entirely cut off from assist- ance, except from the south, and this ap- proach is guarded by the River Drin, which may even now be held against the Turks by a Montenegrin force. Montenegro possesses quite an extensive coast line, favorably located for the encouragement of blockade running and the reception of supplies from sympathizing outsiders. The Montenegrins on the Drin, and the mountain passes held by the Herzegovinians, would give the insur- gents a triangular piece of territory open to the sea, which would form a respectable base of operations, with Trebigne for a centre. Should the Turks attempt, even with a con- siderable force, to penetrate the line of the mountains near Mostar their flank and rear would be open to attack from the northy and in order to approach the objective point they would have to cross some six or seven rivers and streams of more or less considerable importance, which lie directly across their line of advance, and form so many natural lines of defence to the Herzegovinian territory. The sturdy Turkish infantry ¢an probably be led into these mountain gorges, but cavalry and artillery are useless ; indeed, a few hundred skilled marksmen, such as can be readily collected from among the mountaineers of the Illyrian Alps, could hold one of these rugged passes against a division of troops. With the coast line facilities already referred to for the reception of supplies and the neutrality of Anstria the movement against Turkish rule may result in the expulsion of the ‘sick man” from Europe. In any event the day is not far distant when the Balkan chain and the Hellenic Alps will mark the boundary of Turkey in Europe. Austrian improvements along the line of the Danube are not intended for the joint benefit of the Turks. The Russians are encamped on the Pruth, as in 1853, and are awaiting patiently the march of events. The Folly of the Ohio Democrats, It used to be said during the late war that several vehement and reckless democratic journals, East and West, were supported from a republican secret service fund, with the object of making the democratic party odious to the people. It has also been as- serted that one or two ‘especially foolish democratic Congressmen, during the same period, received their nominations through the intrigues of astute republican managers, who foresaw the value of such men in Con- gress to make their party suspected and feared. | There was, probably, little or no founda- tion for these assertions; for candor requires us to say that the democrats during and since the war have been but too ready to encourage the ignorant and unprincipled among their public men, and have needed no outside help. But the course of the party in Ohio and Pennsylvania just now recalls the old stories of republican manipulations, and | lends to them a certain amount of probability. For, what could be more maladroit than that, just when the country has made up its mind that paper money is | a blunder, when prices have already shrank very nearly to a specie standard, ‘when most of the hardship and suffering neces- sarily resulting from resumption has been felt, when we might with but a little effort | and patience return to a sound currency, these democrats should not only demand a new inflation of the curreney, but commit the additional blunder of accusing their op- ponents of having contracted the currency— a charge which is so easily refuted by unde- niable facts that only the rashest ignorance | could make it. Mr. George H. Pendleton, one of the fore- | most democratic statesmen, solemnly warned tender currency would lead to inflation, and | probably to repudiation, He spoke wisely ; and the ablest men of both parties all over the country Mave for years urged upon the republican administration the duty of bring- ing the nation back to a sound currency. So general is the conviction among the people of this necessity that in this year eight of the ten democratic State conventions which have met have adopted resolutions in favor of a sound currency, and all the republican conventions have done the same thing, That there is a faction, more vehement than strong, in all the States, desirous of inflation, ward, Q'Morxissey and bis.courtesy toward | js perfeaily Gues bub there axe maRY sleds. eminent leaders of either party favor so fatal and dishonest a policy. To accuse the republicans, therefore, of an intention to restore the currency to a sound foundation, and to do away with irredeemable and inflated paper money, is for these dem- ocrats to give their opponents the sympathy of the greater part of the people. There is so ‘little doubt of this in the public mind that it is commonly said that if thefdem- ocratic party next year should put itself on the Ohio or Pennsylvania platform General Grant could probably be re-elected by the republicans, in spite of universal antipathy toa third term. We do not assert this ourselves, but it is a senti- ment which may be heard in conversation everywhere, and may be seen in hundreds of newspapers, The President Undismayed. Our Washington correspondent reports that the President is not alarmed about the fall elections, and that he has no fear of the next Congress repealing the Specie Resumption act, ‘The democrats could hardly, he thinks, get a two-thirds majority in both houses for a repealing bill, and they would need that to pass it over his veto, In his opinion, there- fore, the law will stand, and people need not be alarmed about a disorganization of the finances for at least two years to come. The President is right, so far. We should go further, even ; for we do not believe that the democrats in the next Congress, with a Presidential election before thems will be very apt to attempt any wild or alarming measures of any kind; and it is scarcely probable that the ‘‘rag baby” will have any zealous friends among the leading democrats in either house—among men, that is to say, who imagine themselves to have a political future. Just now the democratic leaders are letting Allen and Carey and a lot of other po- litical bummers try it on in Ohio and Penn- sylvania. “But no democrat of any eminencein his party, or who expects to make a political gareer, has so far committed himself to the Ohio platform. Even Mr. Pendleton, who is well known to be an inflationist, fought shy of the question in his speech, and de- clared that he preferred gold and silver. As for Senator Thurman, he has damaged him- self with his own party by his mild opposi- tion to the platform, and will be very apt to display extraordinary zeal in the Senate next winter for hard money. General Grant is a very shrewd politician, and sees these things as clearly as anybody. He comprehends perfectly that honesty is the best policy in this part of our politics, and that the American people are not going to sell their good name and ruin their na- tional credit fora ‘“rag.baby.” As to the plan for resumption of which he speaks, we confess to a good deal of curiosity to see it, It is quite true that Mr. Bristow has author- ity to buy unlimited gold and lock it up; but when he comes toaccumulate it he may find the European markets taking alarm. We wish him every success, and shall await with great curiosity the time the President speaks of, when he proposes to make public his financial plans. Tur Prpric Scnoon Fravps.—The people of Jersey City will hold a mass meeting to- night to listen to the charges Mr. Hollins will make against the School Board and to appoint a committee for their investigation. Mr. Hollins seems to bea brave man. His fellow members nearly threw him down stairs the other night, but it looks now as if it was their turn to be thrown over them- selves. Ax Opponent For Mr. Moopy.—Mr. Moody's sermon at Northfield on Sunday, which we print to-day, will be read with much interest, especially when compared with the address of the Rev. Mr. Sunderland, a Unitarian clergyman of Northfield, who objects very earnestly to the orthodoxy of which Mr. Moody is the exponent. We sub- mit these two opposite views of the evangeli- cal movement to the religious public. Grace, Mercy anp Pracre.—-The case ot Mr. Tilton against Mr. Beecher was yester- day carried over until the next term of court, by the consent of counsel ; so that the public, which is in the situation of a man sentenced to be hanged, has been granted a respite, with the hope of a complete pardon at last. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Rev. Dr. William Patton, of New Haven, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain Edward P, McCrea, United States Navy, is quartered at the Glenham Hotel, Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel, * Mr. Joaquin Miller arrived in this city last evening and is stopping at Barnum’s Hotel. Mr. F. V. Hayden, of Hayden’s Surveying Expedi- thon, returned to Washington yesterday, Mr, Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, has returned to his old quarters at the St. Denis Hotel, Captain William Wallace, of the United States Marine Corps, is registered at the Irving House, Mr. W. J. Magrath, President of the South Carolina Railroad Company, is at the New York Hotel. Lieutenant Governor H. G. Knight, of Massachusetts, has apartinents at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. M. Hall Stanton, President of the Board of Edu- cation of Philadelphia, is sojourning at the St. James Hotel. : Lieutenant General Sheridan arrived at Sacramento yesterday, and was escorted to the race track by a re- céption committee and leading citizens Insurance is cheaper in France to people who use only the matches furnished by the government mo- nopoly—they are so unlikely to take fire. People, who want to ‘make outdoor life attractive to mosquitoes”? can attain this end by sleeping in ham- mocks under the neighboring apple trees, Here isa strange and most outrageous fancy. At- torney Goneral Pratt believes that Governor Tildon ta not the only man in this State who “won't steal.’’ ‘They are in France very clumsy sportemen or bad shots, or the fields are so filled with them that when they blaze away at the partridges they cannot but hit one another, Accidents are already very numerous for only the first few days. Sta Commander James F. Watts, Surgeon John Hiott and Chaplain Kobert Nimmo, of Her Britannic Majesty’s iron-clad ship Bellerophon, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. General Sherman hae written a letter to John A. Sutter, apologizing for using the word “tight in re- forring tohim in his “Memoirs,” and saying that he has instructed his publishers to substitute “enthusias- tic” im another edition, ‘There was a French singer, with a tremondous voice, who could not discover what line in art he was best fitted for. He went to Cherubini, who told him to sing. He eang, and the foundation trembled. “Well,” he said when he had finished, “illustrious master, what yocome?”” “Ap auptigegie”? said Chgrubins