The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1875, Page 8

8 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 Hznarp will be tent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarn. 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 L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, a AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. WooD'’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street.—ST SLOCT™, at & PM.) Closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss “Kate Fisher. Matinee at TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, ‘Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fonrteenth streets and Eighth avenue.—French Opera Boufle—LE PETIT FAUST, at 5 P.M. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, fhird avenue. between Thirtieth and Thirty-drst streets. — MINSTRELSY und VARIETY, at 5’. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, t u roadway and Thirteenth street —THR OVERLAND NEW YORK HERALD NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, ULTUBER 24, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Moody and Sankey in Brooklyn. The series of revival meetings which are to begin to-day in Brooklyn will afford an op- portunity for judging whether these noted evangelists are as well fitted for awakening religious feeling in their own country as among the people of England. They will have the great advantage here of the reputa- tion they gained abroad, which alone will draw crowds of people who are merely curious as well as people who are religious. Every meeting will be made up chiefly of these two classes, and there will be a large section of each who will receive but little improvement from their attendance. That part of the merely curious who leave the meetings without having resolved to lead a new life will not be benefited, nor will that part of the already religious who attend only to judge of the movement, and these to- gether will form the bulk of every meeting. The whole value of the meetings will depend on the small minority of religious people who go to lend their influence in support of arevival and a small minority of curious people whose conversion in the course of the meetings will be the tro- phies of success. To the majority the Brooklyn Rink will be merely a place of entertainment, though an entertainment of a better kind than is furnished at most places of popular resort. The real benefit will be confined to such religious people as find their own zeal quickened, and to such careless people as surrender themselves to the spirit of peace and dedicate their lives to anew service. This line of remark is in- tended to show that the real value of the feast for so limited a number. It cannot be Supposed that God has any special partiality forthe few unconverted persons who will listen to Moody and Sankey with religious profit. There are churches and pastors in every part of our broad and beautiful land, and it can hardly be supposed that no means of grace are blessed except those to which not one person in ten thousand of our popu- lation of forty millions can have access. If the method of Moody and Sankey be the true one what is to become of all the souls who cannot Attend their meetings? Does | God limit His favor to that small portion of the people who can assemble in the Brooklyn Rink? The only Christian hope for the vast majority of the people is in the means of religious culture supplied the Christian churches and their regular minis- trations. It is impossible for Moody and Sankey to be omnipresent, and it would be a reflection on Providence to suppose that’ the few who can listen to them enjoy its peculiar favor and care. God cannot be so partial. He cannot intend to discredit and disparage the regular organization by which the whole country is dotted with churches planted to meet the spiritual wants of the people in every locality. This is the view which many Christians will take of this singular movement, until it shall have brought forth fruits of such value as to silence criticism. Nobody doubts that these evan- gelists are pious, sincere Christians, and they have the good wishes even of those who think that the regular army of Christian teachers are of infinitely more consequence than these well meaning religious skir- mishers. meetings is not to be measured by the thronging multitudes that attend, but by their practical effect on individual souls. A vast concourse of curious people will be merely a personal tribute to the remarkable preacher and singer, whose success in Great Britain has created an interest in them in ry ROUTE, at § P. M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Ada Dyas. PARISI AN VARIETIES, Sixteenth street and Broadw LETY, —VARI atSP. M. OPERA Hi z. b avenue,—COTTON & REED'S at8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, Gio, f84 Brondway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M: closes ot 10:45 ITUTE, AMERIC E, —Buy ind evening. Chird avenue and Sixty-third stre 0 MINSTRELS, .y, corner of Twenty-ninth street, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Cwenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—PANTOMIME, at 8 PMG. L Fox. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Eo gat Brostway.—VARIETY, atS P.M; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE. their own country. But in proportion as they succeed in awakening the careless and bringing souls to Christ the value of their labors will be recognized by the Christian churches. Such converts as do not fall away and backslide will be monuments not merely of saving grace but of the Christian usefulness of these fervid evangelists and their methods. ‘By their fruits shall ye know them.” But until these singular meetings shall be vindicated by practical results there will be a difference of opinion among Christian men as to the utility of such sensational efforts in behalf of religion. There are many good Christians whose sympathies do not Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. GILMORE'S SUMMER GARDEN, jate Barnum's eer an a ag POPULAR CON- CERT, at 5 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. EAGLE THEATRE, Sroadway and Thirty-third street.—VAIUETY, at 8 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, * West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A M. toS FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, fwenty-oighth street, near Broadway.—HAMLET, at 8 ®. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Edwin Booth, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fonrteenth street.—German Opera—THE JEWESS, at 8 eM Wachtel. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—HOP PICKERS, at} P.M. Mrs. W.C. Jones GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Ea of Twenty-third street and Kighth svence.—UNCLE MB CABIN, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P. M. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, opposite the Academy of Masic.—Per- formances day and evening. easily go with movements which they regard as spasmodic. They think, with the old prophet, that God is not heard in the storm, or the whirlwind, or the earthquake, but in the still small voice. They observe that in the works of the Divine Hand the most powerful influences are the gentlest in their operation. The great annual miracle by which the earth is clothed with the wonder- ful beauty of spring, and the seasons crowned with the rich harvests of autumn, is so still, so gradual, so gently progressive, that we can fix no date which marks a sudden transformation. The sustaining air con- tributes to animal and vegetable life in a way so silent that it attracts no observation; but how infinitely more important is this mild agency than when it bursts forth in tempests and gathers the desolating GLOBE THEATRE, Nos. Py and 730 Broadway.—MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, 8PM. A QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities tre that the weather to-day will be warm and vartly cloudy, with, possibly, rain. Tue Herarp py Fast Mac. Trarms.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hud- son River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tue Henan, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wa. Srnzer Yesterpay.—Gold declined from 1151-4 to 1143-4. Rag currency is worth 87.14. Foreign exchange was dull. Stocks were generally firm, but less active, Tue Srraris has arrived at Port Said, all well, The Princess of Wales will be glad to hear the news from said port. Count Vox Anni is to be only punished byafine. Perhaps the generosity of the gov- ernment may be owing to the fact that they cannot lock the Count up. force of tornadoes! A wise physician shrinks from prescribing violent remedies and trusts more to the recuper- ative forces of nature aided by ao correct hygiene than to the drugs of the apothecary. It is only quacks that promise sudden and wonderful cures by their nos- trums. Now, if we admit that the physical world is a type of the spiritual—a view accepted by many pious people who recog- nize both as the work of the same Divine Hand—there is as little reason to expect good results from spasmodic efforts in the one as from great convulsions in the other. The whole tenor of the Gospels, as many Christians understagd them, is inconsistent with spasmodic violence in the great work of religion. They think it not more true that a plant necessarily springs from a seed and is gradually developed by the silent agencies of nature than that the beginnings and growth of a healthy Christian character fol- low a similar order of progress. All truly great things are calm; all thingsin nature which are destined to long life are of slow growth. The Divine Founder of Christianity habitually inculcated this view. He likened the kingdom of God to a mustard seed, which He called the smallest of all seeds, “and it grew and waxed a great tree, and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.» He likened it to a little leaven which a woman “hid in three measures of meal till Torgish Sxcvnirres at the present mo- | ment favor the bears. A report that the S| vian diplomatic agent has left Const noplesends them down. If he should be put back again to-morrow by the telegraph the “bulls” will have their turn. Srmam vs. Sams.—Another collision be- tween a steamer and a sailing vessel is re- ported, and indicates, as did the accident to the yacht Mohawk, a carelessness on the part of steamboat pilots and a disregard of the maritime law which gives the right of way to | sailing vessels. dangerous indifference should be checked by the authorities, who should make an example of some one of the guilty parties, A Mopen Istanner.—One of the night keepers of the House of Refuge, on Ran- all's Island, distinguished himself on Fri- day night by his eccentricities at a dance It is important that this | the whole was leavened ;” still referring to the silent and gradual operation of the work | of grace. And again, He said, in the same vein of instruction :—‘‘So is the kingdom of | God as if aman should cast seed into the | ground, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow | | UP, he knoweth not how.” All these para- | bles bear in one direction ; they all inculcate | | that the growth of religion in the humap | heart is as quiet and unobtrusive as the | | growth of a plant from its seed. The same | | condemnation of religious parade and show | | is more strongly expressed in this saying of | Christ :—The kingdom of God cometh not | with observation ; neither shall they say Lo | | here! or Lo there! for behoid the kingdom | | Christians on whom these teachings have | observation. They regard the Church as the | of God is within you.” There are many | ; made a profound impression, and who think | ' them confirmed by their own experience and | Falling to Pieces. The mistakes of John Kelly as a political ruler seem destined to work the destruction of his organization before the people can avail themselves of the opportunity to strike a blow for its demolition at the polls. Tammany is falling to pieces! Even while the democratic Belshazzar is spreading a great feast for a thousand of his humble servitors in the General Committee ; even while he is handing round to his favorites the golden and silver vessels filled with mu- nicipal pap and tempting nominations, the handwriting appears on the wall of the Wig- wam—Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin! The days of his kingdom are numbered and finished. He has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. His kingdom is to be divided and given to the Medes and Persians. It requires no Daniel to interpret the warning words, As member after member of the General Committee marches to the front and tenders his resignation to the scowling chief ; as voice after voice tells him that manhood and self-respect forbid a continued submis- sion to the arbitrary dictation of one indi- vidual, the truth becomes evident to every beholder—Tammany is falling to pieces ! A few weeks ago John Kelly drove from the door of the Wigwam a number of those with whom less than twelve months ago he was on terms of brotherhood. Yesterday many active members of the organization from three or four of the districts threw off the chains and walked out of their own free will. These resignations are said to be only the beginning of the end. When once an organization begins to rise against oppression it is impossible to say where the revolution will be checked. In the Fourth Senatorial district, upon which John Kelly forced a nominee who, twelve months ago, was in re- bellion against the organization, the disaffec- tion is general, and has not yet been fully developed. In some other districts the men who remain at present in- side the organization do so only for their own convenience, and may abandon it at any moment. It is very evident that the attempt to coerce a large and powerful party into obedience tothe behests of one man is destined to bea failure. It is well that it should be so. The evil of such an organization as Tammany under a corrupt ruler has already been experienced. Undera ruler personally honest, but ambitious and politically unscrupulous, it is equally incon- sistent with good government and demo- eratic principle. The people begin to under- stand this, and the democrats who are first to abandon Tammany under its present régime will reap the greatest honor in the party in the future. Tue Fmsr Froerrs of the city’s suits for the recovery of the money stolen from the treasury by the last Tammany rulers and their accomplices are to be gathered in the shape of half a million dollars to be received from the estate left b& the late County Audi- tor, James Watson. The money is to be paid over without delay, and is to go into the gen- eral fand, We perceive that one of the lawyers in the case states that the counsel and referee's fees, &c., will first have to be deducted. This strikes us as being quite irregular and improper. The money belongs to the city treasury, and with all moneys thus recovered or accepted in settlement should go into the Chamberlain’s hands intact. Not a single dollar should be de- ducted or appropriated from such moneys, and no payments can properly be made to the lawyers engaged in the suits except on regularly drawn warrants. This will be the first amount received as a result of the recovery suits, but it is said that payments have been made previously on the Keyser assignment. If so, what has become of the money? Has it been paid into the city treasury, or what use has been made of it, and by what authority ? “I Hap No Ricur to expect a partisan nomination, and I did not ask it. A public officer nominated as I am will, when | elected, owe nothing to clique or faction, | Gospel house on Water street. After exchanging | great agency for training souls, and think | some angry words with the proprietor this | that the baptism and religious nurture of the model guardian of a public re formatory in- | young, and the unostentatious zeal of Chris- ami cannot incur partisan debts for subse- | quent payment even if he were disposed to | liquidate such obligations."— From Recorder stitution drew a revolver and lodged its contents in a female's arm. Randall's Island officials are, we presume, subject to the usual frailties of human nature. At the same time the people have a right to except to the re- tention in the public service of a man who indulges in such freaks as those practised by this House of Refuge keeper. Probably the Commissioners of Charities and Correction | will bear this fact in mind in dealing with the individual in question—always provid- ing that he is not one of John Kelly's ap- pointees, and has not sufficient influence in his district to endanger the “organization” af he should be turned out of office. tian pastors in influencing persons of a few localities, and which occasion a cry of “Lo here!” or “Lo there!” according as sentimental revivalists shift the scene of their labors. How few, how very few, in | comparison with the whole number of souls, are those that can be brought under the in- fluence of burning revivalists like Moody exer Sankey! When we deduct from the mature age, are superior to all transient | spasmodic efforts, whose effect is confined to | Hackett’ s letter of acceptance. Tammany Tactics.—The breaking up of a Morrissey meeting in the Fourth Senatorial district, on Friday evening, seems to imply that the Tammany party despairs of electing John Kelly's candidate, Senator Fox, by the fair vote of the district. The substitution of brickbats for arguments always betokens a weak cause. If John Kelly fears to suffer his candidate's opponent to be heard by the number of listeners the throng which goes | workingmen of the district he admits the | from curiosity and the people who aro already | members of churches the remnant is insig- nificant Christianity does not snread ite weakness of his own cause. There is a trifling inconsistency in assailing the Honorable deka for his old connection with the P. R. and then attempting to break his head with bowlders on his first appearance among his probable constituency. The Winter Amusements in New York. Our dramatic and musical season began well and deepens in interest as it advances, Although we are deprived of Italian opera, none of the managers being rich enough to support that great musical charity, most of them, we are told, being ruined by previous acts of benevolence, we have the privilege of hearing in concert and oratorio one of the finest of lyric singers. To hear Mlle. Titiens sing in ‘“The Messiah” and ‘Elijah” is some consolation for the loss of her Norma and Medea. But if Italian opera impover- ishes, German opera enriches the manager, judging from Mr. Neuendorff’s splendid suc- cess at the Academy. It isa pleasure to look upon audiences so large and enthusiastic as those which attended the performances of “The Huguenots” and the ‘Postillon de Lonjumeau” last week. These audiences cannot be accused of indifference to music, for they have endured martyrdom for its sake. To standon one leg in a crowd for hours, with your ribs impaled by elbows of varying degrees of sharpness; to support an elderly female on your back, with no other consolation than the knowledge that you are crushing an old gentleman in front of you; to maintain an upright posi- tion only beeause it is a physical impossi- bility to fall; to contemplate the back part ofa bald head while the baritone sings ‘Vi ravviso,” or some other air equally appropri- ate to the view; to be almost unable to move or see; to put your whole body into purga- tory in order to place your ear in Paradise— this is indeed to bea lover of music. And this is the penance to which thousands of our citizens have cheerfully submitted dur- ing the Wachtel performances. The Ger- mans of New York have as much reason as the management or the company to be proud of the successful beginning of the German opera season, The triumph is due in a great measure to their appreciation, which shows that we have a musical public which can be depended upon to support a musical enterprise which deserves their aid. We shall see new evidence of this when Theo- dore Thomas returns and when Von Biilow visits us next month. In the dramatic season New York is equally fortunate. We have had Mr. Davenport and Barry Sullivan, and now a third Hamlet comes to us in the person of Edwin Booth. For the first time in many years this cele- brated tragedian will play in this city, on another stage than that which he created for the home of the legitimate drama. Yet he will win new laurels, no doubt, in Mr. Daly’s theatre. No transformation scene in “Humpty Dumpty” is more amazing than the fact that Mr. Fox will play at Booth’s and that Mr. Booth will play at the Fifth Avenue. Pantomime, however, is not ille- gitimate; Kean appeared in it; Grimaldi im- mortalized it, and the Ravels found it a field for the finest comedy. Then we have at Wallack’s a performance and a play.and a perfection of scenery and effect which might justify any one in taking the overland route simply to see that a drama can be better given in New York than at almost any thea- tre in Europe. An extreme of American character, not the less true because it is ex- treme, is presented by Mr. Florence, as the Hon. Bardwell Slote, and the ‘‘Mighty Dollar” proves to be as powerful in theatricals as just now it is in our politics. Altogether the sea- son is rich in variety and sterling dramatic worth, and the theatres play with undimin- ished vigor their part in making New York in its attractions, as well as in its population, the undisputed metropolis of the country. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Now that the evangelists are here and can speak for themselves, as they will to-day, the city pastors have an opportunity to turn their attention to other topics. Mr. Lightbourn, however, will speak on revival work this evening, and on justifica- tion by faith, which ought to be the outcome of revivals, this morning. Dr. Nye will show what preparation is necessary for Christ's coming, and Mr. Clarke will prick inflated religion and let its vapory contents go to the winds. Industrious female piety will receive suitable commendation from Mr. Merritt, while Mr. Lloyd will bring things that are above down to the hill of Calvary, from whose summit came the words, “It is finished,” whose echo has rolled along the ages with increasing yolume and power. That Gospel of which Paul was not ashamed will be shown by Mr. McCarthy to be necessary to the permanent success of revivals of religion, and the blood which speaketh better things than that of Abel will be set forth in its atoning power by Mr. Phelps. Proximity to Christ, concern- ing which Mr. Leavell will address his peo- ple, will insure proportionate benevolence, about which not only this pastor but many others are deeply interested also. Mr. Hep- worth will make it plain that men are re- sponsible for their creeds, and will also indi- cate some of the temptations of New York | city life and the way to escape them. Professor Weeks will songs. Mr. Jutten will take a journey backward to the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, and stand, as it were, on the shore of the Red Sea until they cross, and will then en- courage his own people to stand still and see the salvation of God or to go forward at His command, Tue Jaconvs Vanpervitt Monoporists do not seem likely to have the ferry controversy all their own way, in spite of Pilot Commis- sioner Blunt’s friendly efforts in their behalf. Judge Van Vorst has fined the Superintend- ent of the Garner line and the two compa- nies two hundred and fifty dollars each for contempt of court. But the New York Board of Aldermen come to the assistance of the people of Staten Island, who are striving for protection against the monopoly by es- tablishing the Garner ferry route. In a fight between might and right the Jacobus Van- derbilt party must in the end go to the wall, despite temporary injunctions and irrepres- sible Blunts. wal aabard Reconper Hackxerr to Joun Ketiy.—‘‘If there exists an office which more than any other one should be utterly divorced from political considerations it is that of a clerk or devuty clerk of a criminal court, Even help him with | | if disposed to throw open its books and records to a politician I could not do it, be- cause the deputy clerk is not appointed by the judges of the Court of General Sessions. The officers who escort and guard prisoners to and from the City Prison and who guard them in court, and who to some extent con- trol process, ought not to be mere poli- ticians, but such reliable men as the judges select,” The Religious Press on Revival. ‘The views of the religious press this week are as varied as the minds that gave them birth, A few of them, however, make the evangelists, Messrs, Moody and Sankey, their staple for comment. The Independent very heartily indorses the remarks of Rev. William Bart- lett in Chicago the other day, that if God had been importuned half as much as Moody and Sankey they would have had a revival in that city before this; which is undoubt- edly true. The Independent therefore advises those churches that are looking for a revival to begin and work for it. There is no need to wait forany man. It is evident, it says, that devoted Christian men and women all over the land will most fraternally and cor- dially engage in this revival work. All things are now ready, and let him that heareth say “Come.” The Examiner and Chronicle sees one important element of success for this revival in the general expectation. But Messrs. Moody and Sankey, it says, come to work with, aid, and not for or in stead of, the Christians of Brooklyn. Answering the objections of some as to the need for these evangelists to come here, would not God bless the regular pastors and their work justas well? The Examiner admits the possibility of this, but asks, Is there any probability that any other man’s preaching would reach as many hearers as Mr. Moody's? And v@ ought to desire a work of grace that will reach the largest possible number of persons. The editor hopes that Christians who are not needed to work will keep away from the Rink, so that the sinners may find room there, The Christian Advocate says of the work of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Europe that instead of being abnormal it was purely on the line of the regular work and spirit of the active and earnest Christian Church. The Advocate declares that revivals are the great need of the theological world to-day. They not only gather souls into the Church, but they change and modify the theological thought of the age, and no care- ful observer of our religious life, it says, can doubt that within the last ten years there has been an increase of the sceptical spirit among the younger circles of our edu- cated people. It behooves us, therefore, to pray that we may soon havea revival that shall be universal over the country. All classes of religious people need it. The unconverted multitudes are dying for it. The North western Advocate names certain circumstances favorable to a revival here, among which are the attention secured and the confidence gained by Messrs. Moody and Sankey every- where, the unanimity with which ministers of different denominations have invited them to their cities and churches and the concen- tration of the influence of the most earnest members of the churches in one work. A great religious movement in a leading city is certain to awaken a corresponding move- ment in the contignous re ion. All eyes are turned thither, with curiosity and with interest, and all hearts are impressed as the tidings of good go forth. The Christian at Work insists that after the handsome manner in which Philadelphia backed down from her claim on Mr. Moody there can be no more rivalry between her and Brooklyn, and that they shall be fast friends forever. An Arctic Explorer on His Way to ‘ Albany. Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the great Arctic ex- plorer, has started on a new voyage of dis- covery. In his former efforts he has sought to find, by way of the North Pole, an open, navigable sea, and a free passage round the world. In his present efforts he seeks to find, by way of the political polls, the clear waters of legislative purity and a way out of the obstructions by which the safe naviga- tion of the ship of State has for so many years been imperilled. In his former world- renowned expeditions the famous navigator has been surrounded by dangers and difficil- ties which constancy and courage alone have enabled him to overcome. Icebergs have threatened to crush him; bears and wal- ruses have been encountered; a hostile cli- mate has done its best to beat back his ad- vance in the cause of science and humanity. In his present expedition all the forces of ‘Tammany are arrayed against him. Enemies more to be dreaded than the Polar bear and the Arctic walrus stand threateningly in his path. Tho thick-ribbed icebergs of Tammany machinery block his way. Courage and con- stancy are needed to overcome these difficul- ties, and as the renowned Arctic navigator has proved that he possesses these qualities in an eminent degree we expect to find him as successful in his present as he has been in every past expedition. Dr. Hayes is the candidate for Assembly in the Seventh district in opposition to John Kelly’s Tammany nominee. He should be, and we have no doubt he will be, elected by the people of the district. They will send him north, to Albany, with the same con- fidence in his fidelity and capacity that was felt by his friends when he started to the regions where the gallant Franklin’s grave was made, The defeat of such a man as Dr. Hayes would, indeed, be a disgrace to the metropolis. In his career as a legislator he will be as pure as the ice he has so often en- countered in the Arctic seas, and he will do his best to find a way out of the corruptions and blungers of past legislation, and to open up a passage by which we shall be enabled to steer the State and city governments into calmer and safer waters, Tur Ivpian Drrvicurttes.—The special agent for some of the California mission Indians represents the condition of affairs in that section of the country as very bad. Some four or five thousand Indians are, ac- cording to his representations, threatened with appalling sufferings, and his “indigna- tion is stirred” the more he becomes ac- quainted with the iniquitons means used by the citizens in sccuring the abolishment of the reservations at Pala and Pasqual. The agent's indignation appears to be height ened, however, by tho citizens who loudly “curse the government and abuse the agents” for not settling this Indian difli- culty. Secretary Chandler is likely to havo a good amount of work on his hands in‘his new position. er Tue Sweeny Recovery Surr.—Poter B. Sweeny’s answer in the suit brought against him for the recovery of six million doflars, the amount of the “Ring” plunder in which he is alleged to have shared, gives a direct and specific denial to all the charges and to all the evidence implicating him in the con- spiracy to rob the city treasury. He declares that he had no knowledge that the several accounts specified in the complaint were fraudulent, and that he never received any share or percentage of those accounts, and never had any interest in them whatever, either for himself or any other party. The trial of the case, it is said, will be pressed for the first Monday of November. The answer is sworn to by Judge McKeon, the law part- ner of Mr. Frederick Smyth and Peter B. Sweeny’s attorney. ‘I Beumve mw Poputar Governatent, in universal suffrage, in the right of the people to choose their own rulers and magistrates, and I abhor every scheme and device, openor secret, whereby political power is sought to be concentrated in the hands of an indi- vidual for the oppression of the ‘masses, or to their exclusion from full participation in the exercise of all political rights.”—From Charles K. Sanford's letter of acceptance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bowles still talks Adams. Ralston owned @ mortgage on the Sau Francisco Alta, Half the children in American schools have injured eyesight from misappliance of sanitary rules. Sixty three thousand and eighty-four more womes than men in Massachusetts, and polygamy a crime, General Sheridan and party will arrive at Omab» from the West to-day and leave at once for Chicago. The Toronto Globe advocates football as a pastime, ‘The best way to learn the art is to practise on tramps. Some Parisian bankers have contracted with Peru for 2,000,000 tons of guano. This is a death blow to specie payments, One million bushels of peanuts were eaten in the United States last year, and yet there are men wha say that the native American is lazy. A dead giraffe, imtended for the State Musoum, bas been stolen. There might have been some excuse for ® stealing a flagpole; but to steal a giraffe! An Indianapolis dog has made himself famous by an attack of the fever and ague. And now several Indians men are thinking of running for President, The item about Wendell Phillips speaking of the Ve netians using paper money is getting stale. What Phillips said was that they used gone-dollars. Said an Arkansas Civil Service Committee to an as- pirant for Justice of the Peace, ‘‘What would you do ia case of suicide?’ ‘Make him support de chile.’ Whilo they were burying Wiiliam Allen, formerly an inflationist of Ohio, a man said, ‘Mr. Sexton, {i you've got enough ashes on, down with the dust.” Colonel Brooks, editor of the Washington Republican, whose conversion was @ subject of remark a few years ago, has requested Moody and Sankey to go to Wash ington. “This,” says an enterprising contemporary, “is the season when honest women alone are engaged in can- ning.” This is untrue. Boys algo are engaged in can- ning—dogs’ tails. “Now,” said Secretary Chandler, going into the In- terior Department, ‘here is an item charging the Fort Dick Agency with two barrels of gin and four loaves of bread. What's the use of four loaves of bread?’” An enthusiastic minister is praying for Satan, This is a good idea for Moody and Sankey. Let us by all means convert the devil, and then we sball havo ne trouble with Butler, Carpenter and Logan. They always fotiow his example. While a San Francisco undertaker was drawing his tape line over the corpse of a Chinese woman he was surprised to see her roll her eyes up at him. The sur.’ rounding friends showed no surprise, but simply said, “She be deadee by twelve o’clock.’? Buckle’s theory of crime will be revived by the similarity of recent events in the criminal calendar, For two months the newspapers have been recording vile assaults on women, Buckle’s memoranda woulé read thus :—Hard ttmes—tramps—irresponsibility—out Je, . “Prohibition,” says the Pittsburg Commercial, “must be honest.” This is true; for nothing is more exasperating than to see a church deacon drink throw fingers of apple whiskey, with a leat of tansy in it. Te be honest, one should ieave out the whiskey or the tansy. It is not the intention of the Dominion government to make the appointments of Lieutenant Governor and Council for the Northwest until the sprifg. Two, ot possibly three, stipendiary magistrates will be ap pointed this fall, and the remainder of the officials selected at a future timo. Von BOlow, notwithstanding his thin logs and eyo glasses, did not have any Boston applause prepared for him, But when he said, “I love Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Liszt; but give me every Sunday morning my brown bread and beans,’ Boston roso and said, “There is a man whocan interpret the masters.” ‘The Roman correspondent of the Indépendance Bel writes that Father Curci, of the Order of Jesuits, has sent to the Pope the proof sheets of a new work develop ing the thesis thatthe Roman Catholic Church should never 6 an immediate triumph, but endeavor te obtain exaltation through suffering and persacution, Father Curci criticises severely the policy of Cardinal Antonelli, Pig-iron Kelley bas been interviewed on the Ohio election. He 1s reported as saying that it is a great victory for the inflationists. He regards it as remark. able, and so it is, uhat in a poll of 600,000 votes the majority in favor of honest money should be only 2,000. The result, he says, is encouraging, for all the power of the banks as well as the moral influence of the administration was cast in favor of resumption. Tho Vice Regal party arrived in Ottawa yesterday and met with a warm reception. The citizens turned out en masse aod as tho train approached cheered lustily. A guard of honor from the Foot Guards were present, as well as the band of that regiment, Mayor Featherstone, on behalf of the citizens, presented an address of welcome, to which His Excellency responded in warm terms. His Excellency Lord Dufferin resumed government yesterday, The Springfield Republican says:—What Messrs. Bris- tow, Pierrepont and Jewell think of their new asso- ciate hag not “transpired.” The more respectable re- publican organs do not display enthusiasm over the ap- pointment ; perhaps their feelings are too deep for ut- trance. “Vot’s dat you says, Shonny?” inquired Mr. Schmidt, as he was correcting his offspring with astrap. “T says nodings, fader."” ‘Yah, but I knows vot you dinks; you dinks dam." The recent wedding of Duke Max-Emmanuel, ot Bavaria, frere cadet of the Empross Elizabeth, of Aus- tria, appears to have been a grand affair, The bride was the Princess Amelia, of Saxe-Coburg-Cobary, daughter of Princo August and Princess Clementine, daughter of King Louis Philippe. The ceremony was porformed by Mgr. Haynald, Archbishop of Kalocsa, At the altar were the Princes of Coburg, Charles Theo- dore, of Bavaria; the Archdukes Charles Louis, Renier and Joseph; the Dukes of Montpensier, D'Aumale, Alengon, and Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur, of England. Judge Alexander S. Johnson, of Utica, has been ten- dered the position of Circuit Judge, to ll the vacancy caused by the death of the late Judge Woodruf. Ho has not responded whether he will accept tho honor. The Judge, who ts Ofty-seven years old, studied law in Utica, where he practised his profession until he was elected @ Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1852 Ho then lived in Albany for eight years—tho time ho hold that position, In 1873 Governor Dix appointed him Commissioner of Appeals to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Hunt, and the same year he was made a Judge of the Court of Appeals in place of Judge Peckham, deceased, His term to tho latter position expired last December.