The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1875, Page 8

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Nos, 585 and 587 Broadw: LYCEUM THEATRE, Ponrteenth street, near Sixth avenue.—DALILA, at 8 P. M. Parisian Company. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Third avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-lirst streets.— MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 5 P. M. NEW THEATRE, ARIKTY, as 3 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—LEMONS, at 8 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third a1 VARIETY, at 8 P. M. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—THE WAIFS OF NEW YORK, at@ P.M. Miss Kuve Baymoud, COLOSSEUM, "Thirty. Soerth street end Benatar .PRUSSIAN SIEGE OF PARIS. Open from 10 A. M. to5 P. M. and from 7 P. M. to 1PM CHICKERING HALL, Let = Mass Meeting of Merchants Be Held—Strike st Tammany Hall, The general opinion that there can be no pure republican municipal government so long as we have a secret organization based upon the old Know Nothing, dark lantern idea of meeting in a lodge room, with grips and countersigns and pass words and giving absolute power over the deliberations of a party to an irresponsible political leader, is rapidly taking root. Thoughtful men who have studied the government of New York see that from the time of Aaron Burr to that of William M. Tweed we have had an influ- ence which has been the source of endless crime and misgovernment, Now and then a reasonably honest man, as politicians go, like John Kelly, gains powerand holds it fora year ortwo, By the inevitable tendency of the secret society influence corrupt gamblers in politics like Burr and monumental thieves like Tweed obtain power and use it for the de- struction of public credit and the depletion of the city treasury. If this influence simply affected the personal character of the men elected to office, if it made itself felt only in the furtherance of individual ambitions or their antagonism, we could well conceive how the business men of New York could look upon it idly and let it pass, as they do so many things in our affairs. But the para- mount effect of the dynasties of the Burrs and Tweeds who have controlled Tammany Hall is seen in the aggregation of our public debt, in the increase of taxes, in the deplorable condition into which New York has fallen in its sanitary arrangements, in the pollution which has crept into so many departments of its government, in the absence of all hon- est civil service, in the administration of its affairs, and in the still graver fact that, while New York is becoming every day more and more uninhabitable by reason of this mis- management, the taxation increases from year to year until business men begin to fear that it will amount to confiscation. Nor do we think that it is unfair for us to trace this evil to its root in Tammany Hall. If the democratic masses of New York had been permitted to govern themselves no such evil would have arisen. It is a mistake to attribute the mismanagement which we have seen go frequently in our city affairs to universal suffrage. The people of New York, whenever they have spoken with sincerity upon any question, have spoken for reform and honesty and economy in government. They showed this when they rose like one Fifth avenne and Fiy nth street.—CHAMBER CON- CLT, ats P.M, Von Bulow, OLYMPIc THEATRE, * ‘No. 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, and Thirteenth street.—CASTE, at 8 P. M. ; closes M, Mr. Harry Beckett, Miss Ada Dyas. Rroatwi ai 10:45. RIETO PARISIAN ES, —VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Sixteenth street, near Broadw: SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, aS P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, as 3 P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, ‘Trronty-third street and Sixth avenue. LITTLE EM'LY, at BP. M. George F. Rowe. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—German Opera—LE 'POSTILLON DE LONJUMEAU. Wachtel Company, PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAK, a 62. M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Ko, 128 West Yourtecath strest.—Open from 10.4. M. to 5 STADT THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1875, are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain. Tue Henacp sy Fast Man, 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, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tum Henaxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered lo newsdealers ty sending their orders direct to this office. Warx Srnzer Yestenpay.—The gold and stock boards adjourned at one o'clock. Gold was steady at 1143-4a 1141-2. Stocks were moderately firm. Rag paper is worth 87.33. Government and railway bonds were firm. Tae Crnrenyiat.—Governor Garland, of Arkansas, in his late Message to the Legisla- ture of that State, took strong ground in favor of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadel- ‘phia. To this appeal the Legislature re- sponded liberally and promptly. They voted fifteen thousand dollars, which, in the pres- ent impoverished condition of that State, creditable. All praise to the Governor for his foresight and patriotism. Tae Frexcn Avrnonrrtrs are afraid of free | Burr to that of the infamous Tweed has been | to make New York debt-burdened, disease- man, as it were, and insisted that New York, which had been cold and halting, and un- certain whether to go with the North or the South, should stand by the flag of the Union. They showed this when the Tammany Ring under Tweed, which appeared immutable, was stricken down, in spite of its organiza- tion, of the prodigious reach of its patronage and of the singular dexterity of the men who controlled its fortunes, They showed this in a conspicuous sense in the last canvass, when they protected the independence of the Bench in the person of John K. Hackett against the attempt to break it down and make it subservient to political influences on the part of John Kelly. Therefore the people of New York are safe to govern themselves if | they are permitted so todo. But this Tam- many Society has grown up by one false pre- tence and another, by subordinating every political influence to the wishes of one or two leaders, by giving its discipline almost military severity, until it became so strong as to practically control New York, unless in times of revolution like those which over- threw Tweed and Kelly. But it is impossible to expect every elec- tion to be a revolution. The people are con- cerned with many things we cannot expect from business men and merchants—that political fervor which we 4ind in partisans. We should gather the fruits of this last revolution and in doing sodestroy Tammany | Hall. This has been done by the merchants of New York, and we are glad to see thata movement has been made to that end under the name of the Committee of Safety. At the same time we think that this movement should be governed with wisdom and can- tion. We are afraid of ‘Committees of Safety,” of irresponsible commune organi- | zations which, in their name, recall the | demagogues of the French Revolution, and tend to remind us of the ‘Committees of Seventy” and the ‘Citizens Associations,” which began with the purpose of reform and | ended by putting their leaders into office. | Our trust is that the patriotic men who are at the head of the Committee of Safety will see this danger and avoid it, for they cannot fail to see that! the effect of the many dynasties of Tammany dominion from the time of the infamous infected. Therefore, the merchants of New York should hold a public meeting, whether they call it a Committee of Safety or speech, and it has been resolved to prevent all meetings of a character to excite disorders, Such precautions can only precipitate the disorders it is intended to prevent. If all parties are allowed freedom of opinion the expression of it will bring its own antidote. Lmenra.—After all a national debt is very like a national blessing, as has just been illustrated in the case of Liberia. If the Republic was without bondholders in Eng- land it would also be without friends ; but, being in debt, the creditors are seeking aid and protection for the Liberians. Henny Wmason’s Funenai.—It is seldom the demise of a public man occasions such sincere regret and widespread grief as have been felt in the death of Henry Wilson. His ‘unostentatious manners and ready sympathy with the wants of the people endeared him to the whole country, and his countrymen, forgetting all the prejudices which come from party differences, united to do honor to | | the war for the Union and the campaign for not, such a’meeting as that which welcomed the destruction of Tweed and Sweeny. Un- less they do this it will never be done. For if our merchants—those who are largely interested in its prosperity and who feel the increase of taxation in their incomes—show themselves insensible to this evil, then what can we expect from the people, the poorer classes, who pay no taxes, and who do not feel, except in # manner so indirect that they } cannot comprehend it, the results of this | shameless misgovernment? | If the merchants of New York will only lead in this revolution there is no reason why Tammany Hall should not be destroyed. Let that work go on, whether by a Committee | of Safety or not. We shall waive our criti- cism on the name if the end is gained. It must be clearly understood that the destruc- tion of Tammany is not wished because its leaders claim to be democratic, but because | it isan abuse in no sense representative or | his memory when his life work was ended. Since the death of President Lincoln there has not been such an imposing faneral cortége in this city as that which es- corted the remains of the dead statesman yesterday from the Cortiandt street ferry to the Grand Central depot. When conspicu- ous ability and tireless service earn such honor we need not despair of the Republic, | for while the hearts of the people are respon- | sive to the generous emotions occasioned by the death of the Vice President the Ameri- can masses, as they always have been, can- “not fail to he true to liberty, | republican. It is a scandal upon democracy. | It is the sure avenue by which peculation | can always gain power. By the laws of New York the charter of the secret society | which now controls Tammany is forfeit, It | was organized seventy years ago ‘for the | purpose of affording relief to the mdigent and distressed members.” It was per- mitted to hold property to the sum of five | thousand dollars, afterward increased to | fifty thousand dollars, “for the purpose of | enabling them the better to carry into effect | the benevolent purposes of affording relief to the indigent and distrassed.” Has anvbodv | | the fullest extent. | tablished an institution in which th ever heard of Tammany Society giving one dollar to relieve distress? This humane and generous purpose has long since been abandoned. Tammany Hall, which in the eyes of the law is a benevolent institution, against which no one can complain, has Grown to be a secret political cabal, used by thieves and political adventurers for their own gain and power. It is to-day as illegal as gambling or smuggling. As our contem- porary, the vening Post, well puts it, ‘‘A more perfect perversion could not be con- ceived. If the Union Ferry Company, whose business it is to run boats between this city and Brooklyn, should undertake to build and work a railroad to San Francisco ; or if an insurance company should direct its at- tention solely to the maintenance of an ine- briate asylum ; or if the directors of a bank should attempt theatrical management—in none of these cases would the departure from a legitimate purpose be wider than it is in the case of the charitable society of Tammany, which is now and for years has been nothing but a secret association of po- litical managers.” Clearly enough, therefore, the duty of the Legislature is to give voice to the will of the people of New York and to abolish this charter which has become for- feited by the acts of its managers. Let the men who goto Albany on the first of the year show that they will tolerate no longer a monstrosity like Tammany. If the mem- bers of the society are really anxious to con- tinue the work of benevolence they can easily find means for doing this without meeting in aclub room and calling themselves Indians and dancing around thecouncil fire. But Tammany to-day, achartered body, secret in its deliberations, governed by irresponsi- ble political charlatans, is as much an evil as was the existence of the Jacobin Club, which claimed to make war or peace as it pleased, to control France by its mobs and to send to the guillotine the purest and best citizens of the Republic when they failed to do honor to a ruffian like Marat or a fanatic like Robespierre. Let a mass meeting of merchants be held. Let the business voice of New York unite with that of the independent press, and cry ‘‘down with Tammany Hall,” and ‘down with every secret political influ- ence which abuses the will of the peopleand enables peculators to gain office and power.” Our Cable-Letter| and Reading Room. Our pithy letter from Paris by cable gives the literary and theatrical news of the gay capital; the activities of managers, actresses, artists and authors; the plans and programmes; the dissensions and legal skirmishes ; the quirks and quiddities ofthe witty, contentious and irrepressible Gallic life. How ample a scene the cable sketches for us in its few lines ; how filled with notable people ; how wellsupplied with the indications of the kind of labor that makes an impression on the world! Offen- bach suing a manager; Rossi guessing at the sensational possibilities of Shakespeare ; Paris determined to have the greatest of all circuses; two American prime donne storming the citadels of fortune ; Worth, the high priest of the sublime in feminine attire, financially in danger. These are a few of the lively themes lightly ‘laid in” on our can- vas of Paris life. This cable-letter, if we may coin a word which becomes necessary to explain the modern steps in journalism, is now as much of a feature in the Hznanp as our Washing- ton despatches. Paris and London are as near to New York, in a newspaper point of view, as Washington and New York were when the telegraph first became a system. In this sense journalism becomes an assurance of peace. It binds the nations together as it binds the States in a union of intelligence and peace. The Paris cable- letter, which must in time be followed by other cable-letters from the great news centres of the world, is a step in that path of progress which was marked by the opening of our Reading Room in Paris, This Beading Room, on the Avenue de l‘Opera— in the very heart of the magnificent metrop- olis—is, perhaps, the best of the kind in the world. Certainly, there is none so at- tractive for Americans anywhere. Here are nearly two hundred and fifty journals—representing thirty-nine States—the best newspapers in the country. Here also are the principal journals of the cities of the continent. The American in Paris will find his country so far as it can be found in its journalism in the Reading Room of the New Yor Hen. Our Paris A Masical Mecenas, Mr. Samuel Wood, an old and highly respected citizen and millionnaire, pro- poses to establish a College of Music in this city and to endow it with the munificent sum of five million dol- lars. In another column will be found the particulars of this grand and unpre- cedented gift toward the most beautiful of the art sisters. Music has made such immense progress in New York wituin the past few years that it may now be consid- ered as one of the most popular studies of the metropolitan public. The concert hall and the opera house are more liberally pa- England and Egypt. Now that the English government has pur- chased the shares of the Suez Canal there is great dissatisfaction in Paris, as the special cable despatch tothe Henarp this morning shows, because the offer of the Khedive to sell them to France was not accepted by the government. Allj this is plain enough now that it is seen that Eng- land has made a characteristic move in the great diplomatic game for the spoil of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In one of Planche’s happiest bits of humor the alter- native is put to a warlike old gentleman to pay or fight. “Up with your banners or down with your dust.” England has lately been ina position analogous to that of the old knight. She has had the opportunity to display once more in support of the Turk “the flag that's braved a thousand years the battle and tho breeze.” But she has been loath to utilize the occasion. She has, however, seized the earliest opposite to come “down with the dust” in the very practical shape of securing a property right in the Isthmus of Suez. It is declared in London that this purchaseis political, and this gives it even more significance. Here is a case in which we see the modern commercial and financial system changing the whole scheme of the relations of nations to one another. England can now secure by purchase all that in another period she must have obtained by diplomacy or war. For what else does she want of Egypt if she possess this canal? It has been an admitted point of British policy that Egypt must be in the possession of England or of a Power in friendly relations with her; whence the support of Turkey and the recent announce- ment that if Turkey was given up England must occupy her greatest dependency in Africa, an announcement against which Russia made no protest, but to the spirit of which she rather consented. Is Egypt of any other value to England than for the sake of the route to India? The best opinion in England seems determined that the de- pendency would be rather an embarrass- ment than an advantage, except for this route. If, therefore, England secures, as is proposed, the full property right in the canal and nationalizes the property as she has done Gibraltar she will secure all that she needs unembarrassed by the encumbrance of the remainder of the Khedive’s possessions. Such a result will be a happy stroke of British foreign policy. Religious Press Tributes to the Vice President, ‘The religious press, at least that portion of it that was published after the death of Vice President Wilson, add their tributes of re- spect to the eminent statesman. The Chris- tian at Work says that in his death the nation has lost a stanch patriot, a reliable man, a sound adviser and a worthy office-holder. Mr. Wilson was both o statesman and a Christian, and one of the statesmen who never brought Christianity into disrepute. With clean hands and pure heart he passed away, leaving a record above criticism and a memory that will long be gratefully cher- ished by his countrymen. His last religious | address was made to the Tabernacle Sunday School, Brooklyn, and to-day Dr. Talmage will deliver a memorial discourse on his life and taking away. The Jewish Messenger unites with its Christian contemporaries in believing that the death of Vice President Wilson is a genuine loss to the nation. He was no ordinary man, says the Messenger. His rise to civic distinction was due to his commanding personal character, and his career was free from reproach, His practical knowledge and untiring industry while Chairman of the Military Committee of the Senate were no more remarkable than his sterling patriotism and inflexible integrity. He was religious in the true sense and had learned to bear with resignation profound domestic grief. His name will long be held in grateful remembrance. The Christian Union thinks the Vice President's death un- der the circumstances attending it and mak- ing it appear so sudden, when his speedy re- covery was expected, will shock the country and disappoint the cherished hopes of mill- ions of people, many of whom, though they had never looked into his face, yet loved him and confided in him as one who loved his country better than party, and subordi- nated all personal interests to the public good. Massachusetts has never had cause to blush for him as her Senator. It others en- riched themselves at the expense of the country, so did not he. He entered the Sen- ate a poor man, and a poor man he has died. Nearly twenty years ago he made a public profession of religion and united with the | Congregational Church in Natick and re- mained a consistent member to the day of his death. He was also a friend of tem- perance, and during his whole public career set a worthy example of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors. As a statesman, a Christian, a patriot, a true citizen anda warm-hearted, reliable friend, says the Jn- terior, the Vice President was outranked by none. He bore no comparison in intellect- ual force and culture with his friend Sumner. But to more than average talents ized adays than the theat | pecioatagie: bagechaheins a arn reproachable integrity and a heart warm with lyceum. The liberality and enterprise of Wood will Mr. undoubtedly be pro- ductive of the highest beneficial ef- fect in the interests of music in this city, and will make New York the centre of art. The native tulent which is so abun- dant here, and which has languished so long | | for want of encouragement, can now have an ample opportunity to develop itself to Many 4 great artist in the seasons to come may have occasion to bless the memory of the good man who es- sivine spark of genius in music was called into existence. Tue Scannens Tnian came to terday, ‘the result being the ac accused on the ground of insan 1 yes- {the would be unfair to find fault with or eve dis- cuss the finding of the jury, ems to us that the practice of the Courts, » he plea of insanity is introduced, is withon coherence and that most of the v cases of this kind are based upou and conjecture. —v — ‘Tnx Brooxiyy Rine to be prowented, and there is some prospect that the tion will be effective. yromecae he added the sterling virtues of industry, ir- human sympathy, which arrayed him on the side of justice and righteousness and made abiding friends of nearly all who came in contact with him. Mr, Wilson was a cheer- fal, trustfal, happy Ohristian. The Baptist Weekly, after referring to his early life and his career as a statesman and an unfaltering friend to temperance and to every other good cause, adds that, above all, Henry Wilson was a Christian! Blameless, courageous and active, he had favor with all men, His convic- tions were always strong on the side of virtue, andas a religious man he beautifully illus. trated the highest graces of the Christian life, The Christian Intelligencer, in giving a review of his early and his public life, adds that his integrity was unquestioned and his patriot- ism was undoubted, He was always generous to his opponents. He disdained to sacrifice his convictions or his principles to win mere popularity. Mr. Wilson's lifeand the means which he used tomttain successful eminence in it, says the Intelligencer, afford an example to the youth of our country. made by subjecting self to patient and perse- vering toil, and he commanded public confi- dence by the purity and honesty of his life | and by ao nnostentatious but firm adherence He was self- | | that Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut, has NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1875.-QUADRUPLE § A to the vital truths of Christianity. The Christian Advocate, having to go to press early, makes a brief note of the death of the Vice President, but reserves its comments for another issue. “Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam.” When the gentle Henry Bergh, leaving for a moment his unrelenting pursuit of the shooters of pigeons or relaxing his efforts to Persuade cruel cab drivers and ruthless rat- baiters to Avoid the guilt of giving pain, seoks & new sphere for the exercise of his philanthropic principles, his zeal is not only apt to convert his principles to persecutions, but to lead him into the most ludicrons mistakes. The efforts made by a few gentlemen at Hackensack to establish the grand British sport of fox hunt- ing appear to have completely driven the venerable philanthropist from his equanimity and tipped his pen with venom, From a letter to his confrére, Mr. Kinney, President of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, we quote the folluw- ing surprising passages:— This impudent and aggressive relief to indolence ts of aristogratic lineage, and to the teeble mind of the average London club man in particular presents great attractions; first, because it ts of very high ‘‘ton,” and second, that it exposes his perfumed body once a year to the semblance of physical exposure. * * * 7 « * On a given day a number of habitual idlers issue from their do-nothing abodes and meet at @ stated locality im’ close proximity to what is termed a “tap,” or, in American phrasoology, a sample room." The convention, all mounted on horses, and, having imbibed sufficient air and liquid, starts for sn open field, followed by a nu- merous pack of hounds, which locality, on being reached, a terrified fox is liberated from a box, and the dogs, horses and men scamper pell after the miserable animal. Now the fox, exercising that cunning for which he is distinguished, gener- ally takes that route where his pursuers can do the most damage to hedges, gardens and crops, the consequence being that those noble ‘sportsmen’ bye leave benind them an trreguiar track charac- tert: by its widespread devastation. Sufficient in- jury having been done to the farmer and the landlord, ‘the precious pack of men and hounds retarn to their usual covers, Grageing along @ wretched fox as & trophy, and the lowing day the sporting pers paint the “daring and exhilarating scone” in glowing colors, Just as the ‘‘Hackensack hunt’’ was done. If Mr. Bergh has ever visited the scenes he describes he must have associated with some very queer specimens of the ‘London club men” or the “habitual idler.” ‘Feeble .mind” and ‘‘perfumed body” are not pretty epithets to apply to the Dukes of Beaufort or of Grafton, to the members of the Pytchley or the Quorn, or the long list of gentlemen whose names, although they may ap- pear in parliamentary annals or on the lists of noble charities, are forever damned in Mr. Bergh’s eyes and subjected to his scornful vituperation because they are to be seen weekly during the hunting season in a godless sheet known to the unregenerate as Bell's Life in London, which advertises, under date of November 13, the following ‘‘meets” in the United Kingdom, viz.:—Five stag hounds, one hundred and thirty-five fox hounds, eighteen harriers, all, ac- cording to our letter writer, largely attended by ‘feeble minds” and ‘‘perfumed bodies.” It would be impossible in the limited space of this article to correct all the mistakes or misstatements in the little extract we have given of Mr. Bergh’s notion of a fox hunt; but one can imagine, for instance, Mr. Tal- by’s expressions both of face and feel- ings, if, after a ringing “view halloo,” “dogs, horses and men scamper pellmell after the miserable animal.” Dear Mr. Bergh! if yon had ever chanced to have had the luck once in your life to find yourself, well mounted, in an easy country, with negotiable fences, sailing along over grass land in the “first flight,” you would have been spared an awful exhibition of yourself in the way of writing about what you do not understand. ‘Who own a good steed they know how to bestride, Tho’ blind be the fences and brook deep and wide; With nerves that ne'er falter, whatever the pace, Let what may delight others, their joy ts the chase! Onur letter writer, in his lycanthropie zeal, may, perhaps, forget that the foxis the most destructive of vermin ; the farmers, there- fore, who join in the hunts he denounces have a reason for joy beyond the pleasure of the chase in their protected poultry yards; and, really, in considering the ab- stract cruelty of foxhunting, it does not seem of great moment whether the vermin is hunted and destroyed by dogs, or whether, caught by the leg in an iron-toothed trap during the night, he should linger in torture until he is clubbed to death by a farm ser- vant in the morning. It seems almost needless to defend a noble sport which has done so much to improve the breed of horses and to strengthen the nerve and give vigor to the frame of men in England ; but it is well to remember that the grand old Duke of Wellington was a celebrated fox hunter ; that the gallant cavalry whose resist- less charge at Waterloo, whose brilliant riding at Balaklava are things of history, were led and officered by men who had learned their riding, their coolness and their pluck in many a hard run with the Pytchley, the Quorn or some of the hunting meets whith take place four times a week during the season all over the United Kingdom ; but then Mr. Bergh says they are—but no! let us not quote any more from that silly letter—we will drop the sub- ject with Talleyrand’s suggestion — Surtout, point de 2tle— “We see what it leads to.” Anorner Savincs Bank has succumbed, the institution known as the Mutual Benefit The loss to depositors probably will not be great, but the shock to public confidence oc- casioned by the failure of this and other banks will be almost irreparable. One of the worst failures so far is that of the Man- ufacturers and Builders’ Bank. ing in this case is worse, if possible, than the latter case it was utterly possible for the bank to make money; but nobody had vonched for the se- the 12th of October the State Superintendent of Banking certified that the Munufactarers and Builders’ Bank possessed assets to the | amount of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars above its liabilities. It now turns out that the bank will be deficient at least eighty thousand dollars. Naturally enough the public will desire to know how Mr. Ellis, the Superintendent, reconciles his certificate with the actual condition of the institution. The question is one which must be answered, Tue New Cosyecricut Senator. —It seems appointed ex-Governor English to the place in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Seuator Ferrvs Savings Bank having suspended yesterday. | in the case of the Central Park Bank. In | im- | curity of the institution, while as recently as | ithe show. | zee! 0 Amettony the’ tse now? e show. Palpit Topics. The death of Vico President Wilson will be made @ theme for instruction to-day by Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, and by Mossrs. Jutten and King, of this city. The other pastors will continue to advance doctrinal or revival ideas and theories, so that there shall | be no break in their discourses. Mr. ‘Taylor will present the closing scenes in the life of Christ and His resurrection. Mr. Johns will take the events connected with the Saviour's crucifixion and resurrection and weave them into lessons of spiritual faith; and Mr. Lloyd will draw a moral meaning from Christ's stilling of the storm on the sea of Galilee, and will seek to inspire his people to greater activity in winning souls, Mr. Lightbourn will show the emptiness and folly of the bargain which gains the world at the expense of the soul, and Mr. Willis will make it certain to all that in following the Christian religion we do not follow ‘cunningly devised table. Temptation has 4 ministry in this life as well as suffering or anything else, It will be Mr. Knapp’s pleasure to-day to present some of the uses of temptation. Dr, Armitage will show from the symbol of Gideon’s fleece how we may and should plead with God and His willingness to respond to our earnest en- treaties, and to touch human hearts by His spirit and His word. Mr. Leavell will criti- cise a criticism of Paul, and Mr, Phelps will explain what it is to be saved. Mr. Merritt will hold up the young ruler who came to Jesus (as recorded in the Gospels) as a shining example of morality and as an evi- dence also that salvation means much more than a merely moral life. Mr. McCarthy will indicate what are the most essential qualities of love, so that our young readers who do not know much about this tender passion may learn something by attending. And then they will get some information also concerning the character of the present and the future life and the relations of one to the other, as well as have the illusions that at- tach to each pointed out ; and Bishop Snow, who believes that the great day of God has begun, will make some guesses as to what the end will be. He, too, wants the. people to hear, : PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ann Eliza Young ts tn Chicago, Lamartine is to have a statue in Paris. Hyacinthe is coming back here in the spring, A bronze statue of O'Connell ig to be erected in Mel. bourne. Zoroaster says:—“When you doubt, abstain.’? Hoyle says:—‘Trump and take the trick.” It is said that Colonel Tom Scott has taken elegant apartments at tho Arlington Hotel, Washington. M. H. Taine is lecturing at Geneva on the ‘Ancien Régime,” the subject of his forthcoming volume. Marian Singer, daughter of the sewing machine tn- ventor, has appeared upon the stage in San Francisco in burlesque A dinner was given to Senator Christiancy at Lansing, Mich., last Wednesday evening, by citizens of both political parties, Senators William Windom, Aaron A. Sargont, Joba J. Ingalls and Charles W. Jones left the city last even- tng for Washington. Emperor William koeps a French cook, and is said to study the bill of fare proposed by that functionary as carefully as one of Bismarck’s reports. Mount Holyoke Seminary 1s principally devoted to the furnishing of wives for foreign missionaries. It bas already furnished 115 of these wives. Tho Springfield Republican intimates that Moody and Sankey will not succeed in Philadelphia unless thoy claim to be working in the interests of the Cen- tennial. Assistant Paymaster Zachary T. Brown, United States Navy, of Newport, on leave of absence, received ordera yesterday to report at once on board the Catskill at ‘Washington. Baron Edmond Rothschild and Count de Turenne, ot France, are {n San Francisco, These young men aro reputed to represent $500,000,000 of property in and out of France. Rell 8 intelligence in the Memphis (Tenn,) Ap- ‘Her matchless ana perfect Sgure was a model, ‘and never showed to so much advantage as when she knelt for baptism." Paul Morphy’s friends believe that his insanity had its start in the strain upon his mind caused by playing many difficul os of chess. Hoe is now tna private asylum near New Orleans. A maddened father is rushing from the room wild for revenge. He cries:—“‘My daughter, I go to avenge thee!’ She clings to his knees and cries:—‘af! do not kill them all! Leave me—leave me one!” M. Thiers is said to fairly begrudge the time he be- stows upon sleep, and as soon as tho Orst hint of day- light is in the sky he is at his desk. His power of con- centration Is said never to have been greater than now. ‘Ann Connolly, of San Francisco, aged seventy-three, has sued for divoree from her husband, Henry, aged seventy-five, because he bad failed to keep the promise he made to Ler before they were married’and give up tobacco. ‘The father of Mr. Sankey, the revival singer, is at present a juror in the United States Circuit Court at Pittsbarg. His home is in New Castle, Pa, and ho has been a member of the Legislature and collector of in- ternal revenue. The Boston Herald corrects its announcement that Guinton, the leader of the Fall River strike, has obtained a lucrative position in the Boston Custom House through General Butler, He bad only refused a position as laborer. Charivari telis of a negro named Domingo in one of the French colonies, who, speaking of the advantages of the Christian religion, said:—‘There was a timo when I knew nothing of God or the devil, but now L know and love them both.” Mr. Gordon Cumming, the lion hunter, is a member of aventuresome family. His sister, Miss Constance Gordon Cumming, bas written, under the title of “Prom the Hebrides to the Himalayas,” a record of her wanderings, with many illustrations from her own drawings. The London Zimes correspondent at Mostar asserta that with the masses in the Herzegovina there is n0 political motive for insurrection, but simply class and creed oppression, and the absolute impossibility of ob- taining justice for Christians from # Mussulman admin- istration. The Chicago Tribune says!—“She was brushing his hair, and he enjoyed it amasingly. Rolling up his eyes he said, ‘My dear, why was Columbus, when he She couldn't tell him and he explained, ‘Because he was tickled in being fust over,’ ‘The Boston Journal says that when the war,gbroke out the achumulations of Henry Wilson amounted to some few hundred dollars, When the war closed he was some $1,500 in debt, No sick soldier was ever left uncared for if bis pecuniary means rendered it possible to afford relief. Mrs. Mary Abert began business life in a little tent on the edge of Laramie, on the Vlains, in Wyoming Territory, She had two cows anda calf, She peddied milk, She saved. She is worth $50,000, rides In her carriage and her daughter is the most accomplished young lady in her neighborhood. Mr. George Smith, of the British Museum, left Lon. don inst week for the East, to resume his researches in Assyria, He will be absont six months, returning im May; and ft 1s thought probable that he will leave Eng land again in August to continue the exploi®tions which cannot be conducted during the rainy season. ‘The Russians have adopted useful sanitary measures in the eittes of Central Asia. Hospitals have been ex- tablished and public physicians appointed for the bene- fit of the natives; while during the cholera many por- sons gave their whole time toan organized work of disinfection and prevention, with excellent resuits. ‘These things,” 8 one can readily understand, “the natives begia to anorectate,”’