The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD a an BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘ieee NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henaup will be sent free of postage. eS Se Se 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 York Herarp, 5 Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE.-AVENUE DE LiOPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. YOR Fourteenth street and Eighth aveuue.—French Opera Boulle—MADAME ANGOT, a8 P. M. Twenty-third street and Sixth SCUD, at 8 P.M. Mr. George OLYMPr No. 624 Broadway. Oe ETY P.M. SV. M.; closes at 10:45 ° PAR RE, Broadway and Twenty THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, ats P.M. Mr. aud Mrs. Florence. Texas Sufferers! Matinee at 2 P.M. GILMORE’S Inte. Barnum's “Hippodrom CERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 MMER GARDEN, ND POPULAR CON- METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Baws Fourweenth street.—Open from 10'A. M. to 5 TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street, near Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 .; closes at 10:90'P. M. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VAMIETY, at 8 ; closes wt 10:45'P. M. THEATRE, rare fy BEGGARS. ON HORSEBACK, at 8 P.M. ELT. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, fighth avenue and Forty-ninth street.—Performances day aud evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Nac nth strect.—AROUND THE IS EIGHTY Dave atS PM Ervin Wo! j closes at 11 P. ML DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, ng Sing street and Sixth avenue —COTION & REED'S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. CE, " M; elowes at 10:45 THEATRE COMI! No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 eM WoOOD’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtleth street.—KIT, at 8 P. M.; doses at 10:45 7. M. Matinee ata). M. STEINWAY HAL! Fourteenth street.—MLLE. fiTleNs" CONCERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and S87 Broadway. —VARSETY, at 8 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, MONDAY. OCTOBER 4, Foor dlr ‘iporie tle morning the probabiites are that the weather to-day will be warmer and vartly cloudy. Tae Fast Mam, Trarys.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, North and Southaest, along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Penn- sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tue Henaxp, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. Tae Cenrensiaz.—A Central Execntive Committee of our Centennial Exhibition has been appointed in Florence, and, as that is one of the most important cities of Italy, the labors of the committee ought to have valu- able results. Mr. Moopy’s Evancericaz Lanors in New England have not been conducted with com- plete success. The issue of tickets of ad- mission to his sermon in Brattleboro, Vt., has caused considerable dissatisfaction, as appears by our correspondence from that place. FoR ATOR, Tae Istamus or Paxama.—Rear Admiral Mullany, of the United States Navy, has ex- plained to the President-elect of Panama the views of our government upon the affairs of Colombia as they affect American inter- ests. These views and the courteous reply of Dr. Arosemena will be found in our de- spatches from Jamaica. Tue Excusn Dispvre with Cura.— Although the British government had re- ceived up to Saturday no fresh advices from its Minister to China the Indépendance Belge publishes a despatch, dated at Tientsin, September 28, which says that Mr. Wade had settled all trouble, and that war is improb- alle. This is not inconsistent with the English view of the affair, and as neither country really wanted war just now they lave probably agreed upon peace. But the English policy of dealing with the Chinese must be changed before @ permanent peace miay be regarded as secur ‘Tae Punerr anp THE Pure My, Murray, of Boston, generally known as tho Rev. Adirondack Murray, has resolved not to abandon his preaching in the year which will be required to build his new church, Yesterday he began his clerical labors in Music MHall, and his ser- mon upon Christian unity will be foand in another column. He will also rt a new religious journal called the olden Rule, and people will be curious to soe whether his paper will be as popular as his pulpit. Journalism and preaching differ widely, and if Mr. Murray can succeed in both professions he will be a remarkable ex- ception to the rule. -The Rev. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER» 4, (1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. | whe Indian Frauds in the Northwest. It is a reflection upon our civilization that we should take so little interest in the pro- ceedings in the Indian country which have attracted the attention of the authorities in Washington. One of the misfortunes of ex- tended governments is that the people are only apt to think of affairs about their own vicinage and neglect distant interests or matters in which they have only a relative concern, A citizen of Peoria or Baton Rouge is naturally enough more concerned in the burning of the Town Hall than in the French or German wars. He would be much offended if his local newspaper did not give more space to a narrative of the domestic event than to the battle of Sedan. He may have a sentiment about Sedan, but the fire is a matter that affects his daily life. One of the complaints of the reformers in the British Parliament is that they cannot induce the members to take interest in any questions outside of England. The Irish members can hardly have a hearing upon purely Irish questions. The Scottish members discuss Scottish ques- tions to none but Scotchmen, while the dis- cussion of Indian matters in a House of Commons is only a form. Beyond a general pride in the Indian Empire as “a jewel in the British crown” and a natural business desire that the revenues should not be dis- turbed, the members of Parliament look upon an Indian budget as a fearful bore. That night is given to state dinners. The real government of one of the largest, richest and most populous empires in the world is left to the clerks in the office of the Board of Control. Something of this is true of the manner in | which we treat our Indian tribes. How many even of our best informed people know any- thing whatever of these strange,’ peculiar, in- teresting people who still live on the vast Territories of our Continent? We have Chris- tian denominations who subscribe large sums of money for the ‘‘conversion” of Hin- doos and Chinamen. The foreign missionary enterprises of America are a prominent part of our religious system; yet these Hindoos and Chinamen whom we would ‘‘convert” belong to nations which have a civilization older and in some respects riper than our own, which was a blaze of light when Europe was in darkness. While we have disseminated the Gospel among a strange people we have forgotten that within our doors were a race, bound to us by peculiar ties, in whose fate we are, as men of honor, com- pelled to take a deep interest. We have dealt with the Indians as a kind of vermin engendered on these plains and mountains and whose only possible fate was extermina- tion. We forgot that they owned the coun- try which we have usurped; that they were once masters of these States, and that we have not only driven them from the lands of their ancestors, but have dishonored our nationality in our dealings with them. The narratives we have printed of the frauds in the Northwest country form only another chapter of this dreary business; but we are not without hope that good will result from these investigations, espe- cially when we see what has been the effect thus far. By the efforts of the Hznaxp’s cor- respondents we have been able to ex- pose a system of robbery and corrup- tion deep seated and far extending, We have shown that our national govern- ment, instead of protecting the Indians, has connived at their destruction. We have shown that the whole trading system of the Northwest is a gigantic scheme of robbery ; that the interests which have fattened upon | it are protected by the general government ; that those who profit by it are so rich that they have been enabled to form in the Indian Ring one of the most powerful influences which surround the administration. We have shown that this ring is strong enough to dictate the appointment of members of the Senate and House Indian Committees, to drive members out of the Cabinet and select officers more obedient to their will, to control the whole admin- istration machinery, and even to reach the household of the President himself. | The strength of the Indian Ring combina- | tions was shown in the efforts which were made to protect Mr. Delano, who, as their Secretary of the Interior, was guilty, if not | of direct complicity with these frauds, at least of not having abolished them. The efforts of the Henaun's correspondents were | admirably sustained by Professor Marsh, of Yale College ; William Welsh, of Philadel- phia, formerly Chairman of the Board of | Indian Commissioners, and others. Pro- fessor Marsh and Mr. Welsh were typical witnesses. The first was a professor of science who happened to find himself in the Indian country on an errand of investigation, and | who, upon his return, told simply | what he saw. The other is a dis- tinguished merchant of Philadelphia and | a member of a Christian denomi- nation, whose name and character are be- | yond reproach. When these witnesses came forward and sustained the allegations made verified by us at great expense and with much difficulty, even the President was compelled to surrender, and in doing so to remove his Secretary of the Interior, be harsh toward him. If the effect of the Henarp’s investigation in the Indian country has been to drive him from the Cabinet he must complain not of what we have done, but that he should have so administered his office that our work had to be done. Now that we have gone so far there is more to be this Indian question. We have shown that even so dry o subject can | be made interesting enongh to the people to compel the removal of a Cabinet Minister. It will be a mistake for us to pause here, The first duty of our democratic Congress should be to appoint a committee of investigation to probe the facts so copiously and eloquently set forth by our correspondent in yesterday's Heratp, The truth is that the frauds he has discovered are as shameless as the frauds of the Tam- many Ring. While the Tammany frauds were confined alone to the city of New York | and were in no sense a part of « general sys- tem, these Indian frauds represent infamy | and corraption not alone in the countrv of | by the Hxnaip correspondents, allegations | We do not care to pursue Mr. Delano or to | done. It is time for us, as Christian people, | as men of humanity and honor, to take up | Indians are spread over a territory as large as our settled States ; that these agencies are far apart ; that opportunities for deception exist in the very nature of things ; that they are removed from direct administrative con- trol ; that public opinion cannot search them out, we see a confederation of crime which has no parallel in our history. Now if this were only a robbing of the Treasury, as in Tweed’s case; if at worst it were only the carrying off of a few millions of dollars, it would be bad enough. But the frauds in the Indian agencies represent not merely peculation, but starvation. When we hear Indian chiefs complaining that their blankets are rotten, that the bread is mouldy, that the cattle for which the govern- ment pays good prices are thin and bony, that the tobacco is rotten and that at times the Indians have been so hungry that they have had, to use the emphatic language of one of the chiefs, ‘‘to eat all their dogs and ponies, except the pet ones,” we see tho enormity of the system which is the crown- ing disgrace of our age and which, in the interest of true reform, must be ended by the democratic Congress if it hopes to win the commendation of the people. Our Paris Reading Room. The announcement that the Paris office of the Heraup has been removed to Avenue de l’Opera and that we have opened a read- ing room of American newspapers for the convenience of our friends abroad has excited general interest among the public and the newspapers of the country. The new site we have chosen is almost in front of the magnificent Opera House, and is within easy range of the Column Vendéme and the Boulevards, the Gardens of the Tuileries and the Champs Elysées and the Galleries of the Louvre. Our reading room contains the most complete collection of American jour- nals and periodicals that has been formed by private enterprise. In founding it our aim has been to have every locality of any importance in the country represented by its representative journal, so that Americans abroad will find themselves at home with their home newspaper when they visit the office of the Henatp, The advantage of this will be appreciated by those who know what it is to be lonely in a great city and the addi- tional value news from home possesses when we find it amid novel sights and associa- tions. The letters which we have received in response to our circulars are interesting and suggestive, as showing the spirit of comity among American newspapers. One editor, for instance, not only sends his paper, but promises to ‘take occasion to make due men- tion of this, another instance of the Hunaxp's enterprise,” in its editorial columns. For this appreciation we are thankful, as well as for the kindness of many other letters of the same tenor, Already we have seventy journals on file in our Paris reading room—from the North, South, East and West—in all from sixteen States. Before long we trust to have every State and every important locality in the country represented. The following news- papers have been added to the list already published :— NEW YORK. Daily Commercial Advertiser. Daily Express Ph Daily All Day City Item. Daily Telegraph .. Daily Inquirer. Daily North Ami Gazette. Sunday Trai Sanday Republic . Daily Chronic! Daily Despatch Daily Leader Daily Miners? Daily Herald. Daily Spy... Buffalo. ‘hiladelphia, Philadelphia, hiladelpbia, hriladelphia, Pittsburg. Pittsburg. Pittsburg. otisville. Boston. : Worcester, Daily Times...... - Hartford. Daily Inter-Ocean Daily News NEW HAMPSIURE, Daily Patriot. Daily Journal Daily Journal. Daily Gazette We have resolve room of the Heratp shall be the most com- plete of its kind on the Continent, and that every American visiting that great metropolis shall find within our threshold the warmest and friendliest welcome. There can be no welcome so warm to the wayfarer in distant | lands as a sight of his old familiar newspaper. Fast Trarns.—A week or two ago our re- spected contemporary, the Lvening Post, sug- gested that there ought to be fast trains in the afternoon as well asin the morning. It did not explain that an afternoon fast train would be for the advantage of the Evening Post, but this is, perhaps, sufficiently obvious. It “goes without saying,” as the French have it. But we think our contemporary in the right. There ought to be an afternoon fast train as well as the one in the morning. The public convenience demands it; and the | government has a right to require of the companies that they shall run such trains | and at such speed as the public convenience | demands. Modesty forbids that we should dwell upon the fact that the Heraun's fast | convenience in this direction, add that, in its efforts for a fast train, the | Herarp found the leading railroad managers very ready to make the necessary arrange- ments for the accommodation and interest of the public and the press. We join with the Evening Post in its demand for an afternoon fast train, Tur Srrvarion ix THe East.—We print an interesting letter to-day from Sissek, a town | near the Anstrian frontier, which, in the in- formation it contains of Bosnia and the fugitives from Turkish pursuit, will enable the reader to more fully comprehend the latest cable despatches from the seat of war, The description of the character of the | Bosnians and the explanation of the wrongs complained of by the Christian Sclaves throw considerable light upon the difficult problem which all Europe is sealing to solve, Tur German Anuy Manarvvnes.—Our let- ters from Liegnitz and Breslau, descriptive of the German anny mancuvres in that | famous neighborhood, form a picturesque supplement to the cable despatches wo | printed at the time that grand mimicry of war occurred, ‘The incidents of the Em- | peror’s visit_jo the battle field and his recep- tion bv the peowle are verv pleasant reading. the Sioux, but TEN all the Indian | agencies. When we remember that the | train showed the government what can be | | done and what was necessary for the public's | It is right to | | Puffing as a Fine Art. The science of puffery, about which so much interest is now felt, is not a modern institution, althongh our modern managers have done much toward bringing it to a high state of perfection. The puff in the past was a venture, an experiment. Now it is a sys- tem. A well managed theatre gives as much attention to the ‘handling of the press” as to the arrangement of the stage or the perform- ance of the plays. As in the case of Mr. Bar- num, puffing is conducted with so much genius that its hero obtains a world-wide reputation. We suppose we have had better managers of puffery, more experienced quacks in America than in any other coun- try. The American quack understands the subject. When he deceives the people he does it frankly. He ‘says:—‘Gentlemen, I am doing a trick; I tell you the little joker is under ‘this cup, but it is not; you think so, but it is under the other cup.” This we can comprehend, and in our generous, free and easy way we are apt to ap- plaud the self-confessed quack. But these transatlantic puffers who control the cable and newspapers are like the dealers in three card monte, who pretend all the time they are playing an honest game while they are cheating. They do not understand our peo- ple, who know perfectly well when they are deceived. Thus, when the cable tells us that the Senorita Squaleni is ‘called before the curtain nine times,” we shrug our shoulders and feel that any people, Russian or American, would be incomprehensible fools to sit stamping and yelling while an opera singer made nine bows before the cur- tain, An American quack would have probably said six times, or three, and been content with that. These foreign puffers are clumsy, and it would be well for them to change their system, While they are making a change why not reform the whole business? Here, for instance, is Mme. Titiens, who is brought before us as a divinely gifted singer. Well, Mne. Titiens is a good prima donna, but she is only good, mot extraordinary. Here is Wachtel, whose praises are chanted as a tenor who might have sung in the Garden of Eden to entranced nightingales. Well, Wachtel is a fair, good singer, but nothing more. If, instead of puffing Wachtel and Titiens and others like them, who are | worthy enough, so highly that their true merit is often denied them by a deceived public, why would it not be much better for Strakosch to take them and find a company of good stock singers and give us a season of opera? We have no doubt that an opera season sustained by Titiens and Wachtel and some other good singers who could be obtained would be a great success in New York. It would be better for art and better for the managers than to exhaust themselves ‘upon handling the press” and deceiving the public. The stockholders of the Academy would do their part toward helping any such undertak- ing. The stockholders have every interest in music, and if Mr. Strakosch can succeed in founding an opera troupe upon Titiens and Wachtel he would add a new attraction to New York during the coming season, and so merit the support and esteem of the people. The Savings Bank Failure. A correspondent asks the pertinent question whether the receiver appointed in a friendly manner for the Third Avenue Savings Bank is to be limited in the time for winding up its affairs, or is to be allowed to postpone a sale of the property long enough to swallow up a great part of the amount that may be realized in clerk hire, fees and other expenses, and he cites the case of the Bowery Bank, which failed in 1857 and has not yet rendered a final account to stockholders, It may be well to go further and to inquire why an officer of the Third Avenue Savings Bank should have been ap- pointed its receiver? For three years, ac- cording to the account of the Bank Superin- tendent, the institution has been unsound, but new deposits have been invited and eight thousand people have been victimized. There has been, nothing in the manage- ment to recommend it either on account of financial ability or honesty. The ability of the bank officers has been confined to the ingenuity with which they have concealed its true condition, and their honesty to mak- ing depositors believe that their money was safein the keeping of a bankrupt concern. It certainly seems questionable policy on the part of the State officers, who are expected to protect the public interest, to make one of the officers of such an untrustworthy and recklessly managed an institution its re- ceiver, and it is probable that the victimized depositors will have something to say on that point. The last report sent to the Bank Department made a false and fraudulent ex- hibit of the bank’s condition, showing a surplus of seven thousand dollars of assets over liabilities, and this was signed and certified to by the then secretary of the bank, who is now, by a friendly arrangement with the department, its receiver. There are two important points which ought to be promptly settled for the protec- | tion of the public and in the interests of the | savings institutions generally. The first is, | how far the laws now in existence warrant the Bank Superintendent in extending ‘in- dulgence” to a rotten bank; or, in other words, allowing a bank to impose upon de- | positors after it is known to be bankrupt? | The second is, whether the directors and offi- | cers of a bank who make false or fraudulent | exhibits for the purpose of defrauding de- | positors are not criminally or civilly respon- | | sible to their victims? We know of no moro | ernel and impudent imposition than that | admittedly practised by this broken bank. | Its managers coolly state that for three years | | they have been hopelessly bankrupt ; that | they have made false statements to the de- | | partment; that the object of its directors has been to “slip out” and save themselves. | All this time they have been receiving the hard-earned money of the laboring classes, with the knowledge that in the end ruin must overtake their depositors. It is singu- lar if the laws are powerless either to pre- vent or to punish such rascality. | How te Crry’s Monty Gors.—Commis- | sioner Laimbeer said to the commission | which is inquiring into the administration of the Department of Charities and Correction that he had provosed to the authoritios a plan by which Blackwell's Island, instead of being a burden on the taxpayers of the city, could be made to yield a revenue of seventy thousand dollars. There cannot, we sup- pose, be any doubt but what this is economi- cally possible. Indeed, in many counties proper administration of just the sort here proposed has solved the same difficult problem in the same way, and turned to a source of profit departments that were previously the pretexts for enormous ex- penses. But, politically, the fact is appar- ently impossible with us. Probably the seventy thousand dollars is made now ; but, then it goes, not to the city, but to enrich some political favorites, and all the money that Blackwell’s Island could possibly be made to cost the city must be spent also in order that it may go in the same way. The Latest Charley Ross Story. The most popular little boy in the United States would be Charley Ross if he were ever found. He was long ago adopted into the affections of the nation, just as the little maiden in the opera became the daughter of the regiment. For him thousands of fathers have mourned and hundreds of thousands of tender-hearted mothers have wept. All pa- rents have suffered a vicarious loss in losing him, so powerful is the sympathy which binds humanity together. If he should be ever found there will be personal joy in in- numerable households, and until that day a shadow, vague and dim, yet deeply felt, must rest unremoved upon the domestic life of America. Thus a personal misfortune has been exalted into a national grief. In an- cient days when » Roman citizen was injured Rome resented the wrong as done not merely to him, but to her, and, for reasons equally vital, in every happy American household around whose threshold children play, the abduction of Charley Ross is felt to bea cruel blow at the sanctity and security of home. The letter we print to-day from Philadel- phia is a strange and interesting chapter in the dark, mysterious romance. It opens another field for conjecture and romance. But we confess we see no great reason for hope that the story of Baker will lead to the recovery of the boy. The letters signed ‘1 of the 4” and “Nelson Boothe,” which Mr. Ross received in September, have a sus- picious look, The motive which Boothe assigns for surrendering all pecuniary ad- vantage to Baker—namely, gratitude for Baker's services to him while they were to- gether in South Carolina—seems inadequate to explain his action. The letters of Boothe, though they pretend that the writer is piti- ful and regrets his share in the crime, contain a brutal threat that only on certain conditions will the child be restored. One of these conditions is that Baker is to have the honor of the recovery. It is to be noted, too, that Baker is the only man who ever saw Boothe ; that he has failed to produce him and that there is no proof that Boothe does not exist only in Baker's imagination. There are other circumstances which make the story doubtful, but the worst fact of all is the disappearance of Baker himself. We do not wish to be unjust to Mr. Baker, but, judging him solely upon his own story and his own actions, we should consider him a fraud, who for some unknown reason is play- ing with ‘feelings which should be sacred. Still it may be that this suspicion is un- founded, that Boothe is a reality, and that the story is substantially true. We have only to say that this question can be easily decided, and that the officials who are trusted with the search for Charley Ross will not deserve pardon if they allow Baker to escape. He has either thrust himself into the case or been forced into it by Boothe, and should not be allowed to vanish from the scene to suit his own desire. The Path of the Great Cyclone from Galveston to Archangel. We note with unabated interest the prog- ress eastward of the great Texas cyclone that devastated Indianola and Galveston. After sweeping over the Atlantic in almost a direct line from its point of departure on our coast the storm struck the British Islands, where it repeated the ravages that marked its progress in the United States and carried shipwreck and ruin to the Irish and English coasts and cities. The valley of the Lee was inundated by the enormous rainfall that accompanied the furious meteor. Houses were unroofed, cattle drowned, and, according to the tele- grams, many human lives were lost. Indeed, but for the substantial character of the | buildings on the territories swept by the storm, we would have read of disas- ters ‘that would have created a terrible parallel to those experienced along the | coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The latest re- ports announce the arrival of the storm centre at Archangel, an important seaport of Northern Russia, situated at the mouth of the Dwina, on the White Sea. Atthis point the storm appears to have lost but little of | its original force; for we read of nothing but shipwreck and ruin attending its pas- | | sage. On consulting a map of the northern hemisphere it will be observed that the ey- | clone travelled directly northeastward. A straight line drawn on the map touching Fer- nandina, on the Atlantic coast of Northern Florida, and Archangel, on the White Sea, will pass through the British Islands and repre- | sent the exact track of the storm. During its passage across the Atlantic the cyclone had full scope for a renewal of its energy, which was impaired during the contact with our Sonthern States. continued its course over alternating areas of water and low land, which scarcely reduced its force, Southern Sweden and Northern Russia are but slightly elevated over the sea level, and the course of the cyclone will | carry it north of the Ural Mountains into the | Arctic Ocean, The manner in which these great cyclones become decomposed in the higher latitudes is still one of nature's secrets, awaiting, it would seem, the thorough | exploration of the Polar regions before it be- comes known to science. The expedition sent out from England for the discovery of the North Pole will, if successful, return to enrich our store of information regarding these wonderful meteors and supply a want long felt by scientific men in the investiga- tion of the laws which unquestionably gevern the phenomena of their development, courses and decomposition. It struck the | | British Islands then with immense fury, and The Points of Metropolitan Preaching: There is a great deal of sound thought in the sermons we publish to-day and some particularly interesting speculations upon morals and doctrines. Mr. Beecher's ser- mon, the first he has preached since his re- turn to Plymouth church, is more than usu- ally argumentative, though in his treatment of his theme he wandered through o wide field of “illustration, His plea for the incarnation of the Godhead ia based upon the incapacity of humanity to fully recognize spiritual life without sensu- ous knowledge. In referring to modern scepticism Mr. Beecher defined Voltaire to be more of a Christian than were the Chris- tians of his age. We do not think that Vol- taire would have thanked him for the com~- pliment, and it is a pity that the famous French infidel is not able to express his opinion of Mr. Beecher. We understand the close ot this sermon to indicate a leaning toward Univershlism, which is in fact the logical end of Mr. Beecher’s theology. In the discourso of Rev. Mr. Hepworth wo have an able ex- position of the differences of the Old and New Testaments, the second of his valuable series of sermons upon special points in re- ligion, which ought to be, when finished, a valuable contribution to theo- logical literature. It would be usefal to compare Mr. Hepworth’s opinions o the relations of the Mosaic and the Christian faith with those of Mr. Brownson as ex- pressed in the latest and, we regret to say, the last number of his Review. Mr, Froth- ingham treated of eternal life in a sermon more imaginative than is usual with this stern logician. Mr, Talmage preached upon the gates of heaven, of which, he tells us, there are twelve, each guarded by an angel, who will only admit those who hava the password. We also print Dr. Gallaudet’s review of the _ history of St Ann’s church, Rev. Mr. Reed's sermon on the nature of a revival, and an account of revival services held by Rey. ‘Mr. Graves, the evangelist, and Mr. Weeks, the vocalist. We may say here that a profession much abused by religious papers has been of great use to Mr. Weeks as an evangelical singer, for we learn that he was formerly a negro minstrel and possesses tha power of varying the expression of his face to suit the sentiments of the hymn. Thus sin- fal experiences often become useful in religious exercises. Many a clergyman owes his great success to the fact that nature meant him to be an actor. ‘Tue Erm Ramway.—We print in another part of to-day’s paper the full text of the re- port made by Sir Edward W. Watkin to the British bondholders, concerning the present condition of the Erie Railway. It contains some interesting facts and suggestions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Gladstone has Yr. Greeley’s mania for cuttiny down trees. , General Banks’ son is an engineer in the, Sutro tun ne! in Nevada, Boston’s Music Hall was jammed by people who wanted to hear Tilton lecture. Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, United States Army, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Dio Lewis threatens to reside permanently in Sas Francisco. Yet he is a temperance man. Miss Tennie C. Claflin will begin her dramatic careey in Baltimore as Pauline in the “Lady of Lyons.”” Wendell Phillips thinks that the Fall River troubles are only the beginning of a great socialistic storm. Apistol fight recently occurred in Kansas City, and a local paper remarked, ‘then the scheutzenfest began.’? Mr. Lindecrone, the Danish Minister, and ex-Consul Kibne arrived here yesterday from Europe in the steamship Moselle, Swinburne has written an’ introluctory essay to “Joseph and His Brethren, a Dramatic Poem,” by Charles 0, Wells. Dr. Mary Walker says that women can stand more pain than men can. But women have not yet begun to be defeated for office. Some of the democrats aro talking about having a national newspaper at Washington and of taking the Richmond Enquirer there. R. Holland Buell, the new Commissioner of Patents, arrived in Washington yesterday morning and will enter upon his duties to-day. Since Miss Nilsson is growing stout musical peoplo are wondering whether she will lose or improve her voice, She will raise her scales. In Massachusetts the delegates to the Republican Con- vention were on an average ten years older than thos sent to the Democratic Convention. “Should there be no popular choice for President the House of Representatives will elect,” is an item o speculation going the rounds of the press. After Lady Dilke was cremated she weighed sia pounds, and Ohio repablicans are wondering how macb old Bill Allen will weigh a month from now, A writer says that if Miss Alcott had spent her time in pinching back her dress and choosing zebra stock- | ings she could not have earned $60,000 at writing. Little-Bad-Man is one of the warriors of the Black Hills, and yet the Indian Ring politicians got the vest of bim. If he had had a smooth name tke Delano, | now, When Governor Ames of Mississippi wanted soldiers his father-in-law, General Butler, failed to respond, | Yot a scow full of powder, if properly blown up, might | have shaken tho State, Chief Engineer H, Clay Sexton, of the St. Louis Fire Dopartment, is in this city for the purpose of examining | the Intest improvements in fire extinguishing apparatus, | He is staying at Barnum’s Hotel. Is the Hon, Henry L. Dawes, Senator from Massa | chusetts, a trimmer after all? The Boston Globe sar- | castically says that he should trim his whiskers. “It must be humiliating not to be recognized by the chair.” | Senator Frelinghuysen is thought by his State papers to be a good Presidential candidate because he isa handsome man, If that ig the only reason for his nomination he must wait for the advent of woman’s suilrage, | The Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is said to have voted three times at the Republican Conven- tion for Charles Francis Adams. His first choice would probably have been Hon. Henry L. Pierce, whose chances for a nomination were never good, Mr. George L. Fox, the pantomimist, was reported to have had paralysis of the facial muscles, 80 that he could no more give his excruciating “looks,”” The ree port is untrae. It appears simply that ho tried to read one of Governor Allen’s speeches, and said he could never laugh again. ‘A French scientist has invented anew fish bait, A bottle is lowered into the water and lighted by elec tricity, and the fish are to follow itinto a net, But this | ts a method already employed in the open air over in New Jersey, One or two bottles filled with Jersey | lightning will draw a whole primary meoting. Ex-President Johnson during his life received a twig | taken from the willow which bonds over the grave of | Napoleon Bonaparte on St, Helena, which he planted in the garden of his late residence, and which has now | grown to a stately tree, A twig {rom this tfeo will bo | planted over the gravo of Mr. Jolinson, on Johuson’s Hill. In one town in New Jersey, when a policeman taps at the door the next morning and says that though thoy are respectable people he must next time stop them when they aro throwing coffee pots and patty pans at each other and disturbing the neighborhood, the man of the house smooths down the sticking plaster and says be was ouly colobrating his tin woddins, vA