The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1875, Page 8

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Tae Survivors of the Deutschland calam- ity were to have sailed on the Mosel, which was prevented from sailing from Bremen yesterday by the injuries it received from the horrible ‘giant powder” explosion there. Cupa Lone undoubtedly wants money, and a correspondent says that she can get millions in London. This is a very happy state of affairs, and would. induce most people of an impecunious habit to see that the want and the opportunity shook hands. Tux Cxenrexxiat.—The suggestion of an evening contemporary, that the people of Philadelphia should raise the balance of the money necessary to complete the Centennial buildings, would be timely if this Exhibition were a Philadelphia affair and not a national one. Tae Cewrnan anv Soura Amenrcan Repub- lics appear from the latest mail dates to be tranquil. This is owing to the fact that the peoples are at present resting from the last revolutions, and those who are preparing for the next have not got beyond the incubatory stage of their humane work, Tae Reon oF Honnons by land and sea which has prevailed for the past weck was Gitly supplemented yesterday by the explo- NEW YUKK HHRALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1%, 1875—QUADKUPLE) SHEET. Are we «v0 mave a Now Protectorate !— | campaign of similar character which we Firebrands in Politics—What the Issues of the Next Canvass May In- volve. Bishop Haven has made a sensation. We have had no declaration from any prominent man fora long time that has made the im- pression of his fervid declarations on the question of the Presidency. The telegraph did not do the Bishop justice. This cold, peremptory electric wire is a sore destroyer of all kinds of rhetoric and “zeal.” The meeting which was signalized by the extra- ordinary performance of his reverence, and which may become historical, was held in the old historic town of Boston. It was @ preachers’ meeting. An address had been made on “Bismarck and the Pope,” a favorite topic for Protestant declamation. In this address the speaker, whose name was Wells, said that Grant was the ‘‘saviourof his coun- try” and the people could not “dispense with his services.” This declaration was heard amid loud cheering, and Bishop Haven arose. He saw in Grant, who was pro-slavery enough before the war, “the great hero of human freedom.” Then, according to the reporter, he ex- claimed, in stentorian tones, ‘‘I believe that President Grant is the only man who could conquer the enemies of human freedom. I herewith, in the name of the American people and true Christianity, nominate Ulysses 8. Grant, our present worthy Presi- dent and defender, to athird term in the office of the President of the United States.” Then the Rev. Dr. Bates put the motion in regular form, and the proposition of Bishop Haven was unanimously adopted, not a dis- senting vote being given. The impression that this nomination was the movement of a rather talkative and not altogether discreet Methodist Bishop, and that he spoke for himself alone and not for his audience, is dispelled by the formal ac- tion taken by the meeting in ‘‘unanimously” adopting the nomination. We must, there- fore, consider this Boston demonstration as the formal nomination of General Grant for the Presidency “for a third term” by a convention composed of ‘‘two hundred and thirteen ministers and about one hundred laymen ;” and, according to the Tribune, ‘‘an unusually large number of the most intelli- gent and influential members of this denom- ination.” The Methodist Church, it must be remembered, is one of the most impor- tant, as it is undoubtedly the largest, of our Protestant bodies, It is peculiarly indenti- fied with the nation’s progress, with the set- tlement of our Western world, with the development of a true and pure Christian spirit and a conscientious patriotism. The history of Methodism in this country is a history of effort and achievement, in spite of toil and misery, the hardships ef a frontier life, of struggles with a rude civilization and of struggles far more terrible with the merci- less Indian savage. There is no religious influence in this country so powerful as that of the Methodist Church ; for, while the believers in the Roman Catholic creed may be more numerous, they are alone. The Methodists have the natural sympathy of the other Protestant churches, with whom the Catholics are in antagonism. Con- sequently it would be folly for us to ignore as an unexpected, evanescent sporadic movement a nomination from a con- vention composed of more than three hundred members, clerical and lay, of a Church so powerful and numerons, acting under the inspiration of a trusted bishop. Looking at this movement from its largest sense, we see more and more reason for view- ing it with gravity. First, we have the speech of the President at Des Moines. This speech would have been extraordinary from any Chief Magistrate, but froma President who “never speaks,” who is celebrated for his silence, it becomes more remarkable. In this address the President virtually says that an agitation of religion will take the place of that agitation of slavery which only ended in a fierce and bloody war. Then came the let- ter of Mr. Blaine, the accepted leader of the republican party, and himself not without hopes for the Presidency, throwing the same firebrand into the canvass. This was fol- lowed by the Message, with its proposed amendments in the same vein. Now we have the nomination of the Presi- dent for a third term by a “most intelligent and influential” convention of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States—a denomination of which the President is an ostentatious if not a partic- ularly devout member. When we see these suggestive and unusual circumstances fol- lowing one so hard upon the other what can wethink? This is the only practical move- ment that thus far has been made toward a canvass the nominations for which must be determined in a few months. The demo- crats have been waiting for the republicans to begin and make as many mistakes as pos- sible, The republicans have been waiting expectant for the sphinx to speak and ex- plain the riddle of the succession. The two parties have stood antagonistic, like Laertes and Hamlet in the fencing scene, waiting for the advantage, when suddenly the President comes upon the stage, a candidate for the third term, nominated by a respectable con- yention—much more 80, we fear, than any political convention will be—and upon a platform which has the published support of the leader of his party—the platform of “no Popery.” This is the real meaning of the movement in Boston. It is the formal opening of the campaign for the Presidency. It puts General Grant first in the fieid, and behind him the power of a great Church, and the undoubtedsympathy of a large part of the Protestant churches of the United States. For this is a question that in no way appeals to the reason of our people, Once sion of a case of dynamite on the dock at | strike the chord of religion in the breasts of Bremerhaven. Forty persons were killed | snd doubtless a great many wounded. The teally astounding part of the story is that | the case containing this terrible explosive | sion, of fervent belief. was placed there as part of the baggage | of a passenger. We can imag and if the authorities at Bremen cannot find let the offender slip in this case would act | Cavalier be the ruler?’ any people, no matter how sensible and practical, and the reason no longer responds. It becomes a matter of deep emotion, of pas- All other thoughts mergé into this one thought, which rests, ne nothing | after all, upon the holiest feelings of our more criminally reckless than such an act, | nature—our trust in a divinity, our hopes for | a life of everlasting peace. law in their code to punish so ontrageous a | dereliction we shall be sorry to hear it. To | It is well, then, that Bishop Haven should ask the question, ‘S| the Puritan or the It is well that the very badly on ocean travel from that port, | professor who preceded him should exalt the as intending passengers would hesitate to trast their lives where there was no measure of law to provide against such fearful risks, | President as “the saviour of the country." | Since we are to have a campaign of religious | aicittion. let it be upon the basis of the only have in our Anglo-Saxon history—namely, that which began and ended with the Ptatver of Oliver Cromwell. It is well that the super-loyal Bishop should summon up the memories of the Cavalier and the Puritan. Grant, foiled in his various flanking movements for a third term ; foiled in St. Domingo, in the Alabama business, in Cuba and in Mexico, now moves | upon the religious line. He shows by this very movement that he thinks he can win by no other. spirit that will respond to any cry against Mexico or Spain. makes an appeal to that fierce sentiment of religious apprehension and belief which has always a strong hold on the Anglo-Saxon heart. He appeals to a sentiment which modern statesmen have always disdained to invoke, a sentiment that has never been mentioned in connection with politics, ex- cept by political demagogues who cared nothing for the means by which power was gained so they enjoyed power. Nor do we underrate the force of this new position. Once bring religion into our politics and our people will divide as they never did on Mason and Dixon's line, The dividing line will be in every State, in every town, nay, perhaps, in every home. It will be with us as it was in the days of Cromwell. We shall have fierce, unreasoning fanaticism in our politics, and a Protector over us, beginning to ‘‘protect” usas a third term President, and ending only when it pleases his military and religious followers to dismiss him from power. The argument which makes General Grant a “necessary President” now will make him so for a fourth or a fifth term as well. It would then be no moro a departure from custom to make him perpetual President or Lord Pro- tector, as the Puritan Cromwell was called, than it is now to talk of a third term. We shall be told, perhaps, that the Hznanp is an alarmist; that we have found another ‘HeRAcp sensation;” that our reading of the Boston movement is extravagant and un- founded, and that we do not give credit to the common sense, the love of freedom of the American people and all that sort of thing. Perhaps so. We were told this three years ago, when we first called attention to the ten- dencies of the political situation toward Cesarism. The country in time saw what was the real tendency to which the Henaxp. referred. But even the country would not have waited for us to sound the warning if we could then have prophe- sied that in 1875, on the verge of a canvass for the Presidency, a bishop of the Methodist Church would have nominated General Grant fora third term, ‘‘amid loud cheering,” and a Methodist convention would have ‘‘unanimously adopted” the motion. Yesterday in London and Paris. Our cable letters from Paris and London come to us in time to take their places on the table which our readers expect to see set for their delectation this Sabbath morning. Our London contribution groans under the solid roast beef, plum pudding and strong- bodied port wine of British finance, while Paris furnishes its piquant entremets, its volailles (a trois bees), its glorious burgun- dies, and its beaded champagne of politics, art, literature and society gossip. Our read- ers, sensible people, demand that the viands of their diurnal journalistic feast shall be as fresh as those on their own tables, and we have no desire that they should wait to get by steamer what we can procure by cable. If it costs a little more, that is our business, and need not do more than whet the Hxnaxp readers’ appetites, The first champagne pop from Paris is good for the republican party of France, although not pleasing to MacMahon and the conserva- tives. The elegant fossils of the old régime are evidently afraid that the Republic is grad- ually settling down to as much permanence as is ever accorded toa French government. In the face of all this we learn thata mar- riage between Princess Thyra of Denmark and the Duc d’Aumale is contemplated. Politically it may be important; but the Duc is an eligible parti, for he is, probably, the richest man in France. The Queen of Denmark may well be congratulated on her success, for her royal nursery has taken most of the first class European prizes, Von Biilow’s opinion of American musical taste has stirred up the English to indigna- tion, as it reflects on them, and possibly will lead to the great pianist striking a war note on his favorite instrument when he reads the English papers. Let him not, however, hasten, like Mr. Grau, to say that this Eng- lish furor cannot be true because he had not heard of it before reading it in our cable letter. When Mr. Grau got his European mail he was glad to admit that what he doubted about Bouffar breaking her engagement was only too true. Our London letter shows that England is going as wild over its Egyp- tian bargain as it did over the phantom gold in the South Sea bubble. This time, how- ever, there is a solid foundation for the hopes of John Bull, and it will be curious to see what he makes of the riddle of the Sphinx. We are glad that Turks are logking up and sorry that Peruvians are still 80 cloudy, but our readers must make up their minds on these ponderous subjects for | themselves after reading our London letter. Asan instance of the great vitality which attaches to men whose brains are of the first order, we would point to the note in our | Paris letter to the effect that the aged states- man, M. Thiers, in the midst of all the bustle over the Senate elections, found time and taste to take a half hour's study of Meissonier’s large picture which a citizen of New York has purchased, Tux Democratic Assoctation of the District of Columbia has passed a resolution advising the democrats in Congress to accept the amendment to the constitution proposed by Mr. Blaine. The effect of this will be to | draw the teeth of the republicans, who leok forward to a religious issue in the next can- vase. This is the advice of the Henann, and we are glad to learn that there is a disposs | tion to assent to it on the part of honest and clear-headed democrats, Tux Prestpent has nominated Ri*hard | Gibbs, of New York, to be Minister Plenipo- . teantiary to Peru, Who ia Bichard Gibbs? | | | He sees that there is no war | He takes up the banner | which Cromwell laid down centuries ago, and | | Instead of the Bishop. one of the gost distinguished and consden- tious members of the Methodist Church, whose name, if it were known, would bethe highest guarantee of the sincerity of his emn- victions:— To Tux Eprror ov tax Heratp:— As a Methodist I am glad you have taken up he | foolish and unclerfcal action of Bishop Haven at Bostn | in regaed to a renomination of General Grant, Bisbip Haven 1s known in our Church as an energetic, restless and extremely injudicious man, Many who admie | his ability have a profound distrust of his judgmen, and he does not in any senso represent the sentimens of the MA@hodist Church, nor could he influence th denomination to even any appreciable degree. The fact that the President's family are Methodists has given the clergy of one Church unusual preten | sions to influence in the White House, and this they have used, and in some cases, as was inevitable, mis- used, clergymen being mortal Thoy do not like to give itup. Access to those who hold political power and influence over them is a very pleasant thing t clergymen, as it is, probably, to other men, Buts great many of our laymen, and not a few of our best and ablest clergy, have seen with alarm the tendency of favorite preachers and bishops of our Church to use their fluence over the President, and through him upon the departments, for political ends and for purposes of favoritism. For my part I sincerely hope the successor of whom the President spoke in his Message the other day will be a hard shell Baptist. It would be a calamity to the Methodist Church if he should prove to be a Methodist, or especially favorable to that denomination. As for Bishop Haven, his work ties, I believe, in the South- ern States, and it would be well if he would attend to it, When he turns a ministerial gathering in Boston into a political meeting he is certainly not in the line of his duty. So thinks yours, respectfully, New York, Dec. 9, 1875. A METHODIST. “A Methodist” does injustice to Bishop Haven in attributing to him alone the action of the meeting of the Methodist clergymen and laymen in Boston. We do not doubt that the criticism of the Bishop as ‘‘an energetic, restless and extremely injudicious man” is correct, because our correspondent knows whereof he speaks. But he must see that Bishop Haven was really a minor actor in an extraordinary drama. The first allusion to President Grant as a ‘‘saviour of the people” came from another divine, aud Bishop Haven’s speech was simply a sonorous en- dorsement of what had been laid down by the speaker who preceded him, The Convention then, bya unanimous vote, nominated President Grant for a third term. The person who put this motion was the Rev. Dr. Bates. As if to show that this movement is not distasteful to other prel- ates, we note that Bishop Simpson, in an interview with a correspondent of a Phila- delphia paper, while deprecating Bishop Haven’s ‘interference in politics,” adds quietly, ‘‘All I can say is, that if President Grant be re-elected the people will have done wisely.” First we have a Bishop of the Methodist Church whose field of labor is in the South. Then we have the assent of an- other Bishop who stands close to President Grant and whose family has received sub- stantial favors from the administration. Then we have a convention composed of nearly three hundred clerical and lay members of the Methodist denomination. They all unite in presenting General Grant for athird term. Suppose that Cardinal McCloskey had presided over a meeting of Catholic laymen and priests, and had made a speech singling out President Grant or any other public man as ‘the saviour of the country” and nominating him for a third term. Sup- pose that resolutions to that effect had been adopted ‘‘unanimously,” what would have been the response on the part of the Protestants throughout the Repub- lic? What would we not have heard of “Jesuit intrigues,” of ‘the interference of the Pope,” of “‘priests mingling in politics,” of ‘‘dark schemes?” Would not the country have flamed like a prairie fire from Maine to California, and should we not have had a re- vival of all the old Know Nothing, anti- Catholic, native American excitements ? The difference is that the priests who are now interfering in politics are Methodists and not Catholics. Morally there is no dif- ference at all. But, as we have said, sup- posing Cardinal McCloskey had made the demonstration of Bishop Haven, what would be the condition of the ccuntry now ? The Is there a more pitiable sight to the average pedestrian in the Fifth avenue on a frosty morning, if he venture to expose an open eye in the clouds of doubtful dust that en- velop him, than the number of valuable horses endangering their limbs in painful progression, or lying prone upon the cruel polished stones that now pave the Champs Elysées, the main and fashionable avenue that leads to the Central Park? Various pavements and poultices have been applied to this great highway, with the same invaria- ble want of success, and ‘‘man’s noblest con- quest,” as Buffon justly callsthe horse, finds each succeeding experiment a pitfall and a snare unto his feet. Inits present condition itis a positive danger to the equestrian, while the owners of carriages have cause to con- gratulate themselves when they have passed the Scylla of Murray Hill and the Charybdis of Madison square without fracturing o horse’s leg or breaking pole and harness. In the sticky mud that each rainfall luxuriantly provides can the Fifth avenue alone be passed in slushy safety. Within a few years past the breed both of carriage horses and of saddle horses has been greatly improved; the number of beautiful and fashionable equipages in the city have been more than quadrupled; notwithstand- ing the difficulties and dangers of the way many fine four-in-hand teams have been organized, and we hear that a new ‘‘coaching club,” on the plan of the celebrated London club of that name, is springing into exist- ence. These establishments are not merely sources of pleasure to their owners, they are ornaments to the city, and add to the appear- ance of fashion and opulence which should strike a stranger in the most fashionable ave- nue of the third metropolis of the world. There isa remedy for all this. The ex- periment of macadamizing the Fifth avenue from Madison square to the gates of the Central Park has never been tried; but it has been tried in other capital cities with signal success, and the experienced President of our own Park Commission can point with pride to the condition of its most travelled roads in the heats of summer or the detest- able thaws of winter. But the Fifth avenue is the main approach to the Park. Why not | then, by judicious legisjation. nlace it under Champs Elysees ot New York. Suppose It Had Beem the Cartinal | the control of thd Odimmissioners of Parks and the protection: of their admirable care | Wo hava received the following letter ‘rom | #4 management? What should we gee within one yeat fro" the time that od Champs Elysées are thrown open as a smooth macadamized avenue to the lungs of the city? A very large increase in equipages and in healthy equestrian exer- cise, perfect safety, and a grand deliverance for the pedestrian from the limbo of dust and filth that now assails and torments him. Who Do These Shoes Fit? Some light will be thrown on the important problem whether the President was referred to in the St. Louis arguments by considera- tion of the reported words of Mr. Hender- son. They are not susceptible of ambiguous renderings. He said in one place: What right had Babcock to go to Douglass to induce him to withdraw his agents? Douglass was placed in his position to see that the revenue laws of the govern- ment were properly enforced. What business, then, had = with him? When an official goes into office he should be free and Independent of all influences except that of law, and if he recognizes any other master then this government is tumbling down. It appears that the persons here openly re- ferred to are named Douglass and Babcock respectively. One of them was in the mter- nal revenue service ; the other was not in any civil department of the government ser- vice, but was the President’s private secre- tary. Yet it is implied that this private sec- retary had power over a regularly appointed government officer in an important depart- ment. How could he have such power? Only by some irregular, unofficial and im- proper influence exertised through the Presi- dent. Ifit is recognized in the White House that the President can be reached by an ir- tegular, unofficial and improper influence, this may, therefore, refer to the President. Mr. Henderson also says:— Under the name of party every fraud and infamy vithim the range of possibilities is perpetrated, [tis to be hoped and prayed that the time is coming when a man who has the imperious force of character to resist the dictates of party will be looked up to asa hero. But we may go to the bottom—corruption may feast in al our institutions, and our nation may decay and fall before we learn this grand truth. If the President recognizes that he has used the name of party as a cover for ‘‘every fraud and infamy within the range of possi- bility,” this is clearly a reference to him. Mr. Henderson said further:— What right has the President to interfere with Com- missioner Douglass in the proper discharge of his SS e5i°8 Tambotabie weatuaee of ‘charactor when he listened to Babcock’s dictates. This seems to imply that the President improperly interfered with Douglass in the proper discharge of his duty, and through Babcock sent such instructions as compelled the revenue authorities to be easy with the thieves. If the President did such a thing it must mean him. Mr. Henderson continued :— Why did Douglass bend the supple hinges of the knee and permit any interference 4 the President? ‘This was Douglass’ own business, and he stood respon- sibie for it under his official oath, He was bound to listen to no dictation from the President, Babcock or any other officer, and it was his daty to sce that that order was carried out or to resign. In this short extract. the word ‘‘President” is repeated. It may mean the president of an insurance company; but, from ex- perts and intelligent persons acquainted with official almanacs, we understand that it clearly refers to a person in Washington named Grant. If that is the President's name he is the man, Our own opinion is that Mr. Henderson referred tothe President. But the President can find out if he wishes to know. Mr. Henderson has referred to a person who, first, is amenable to improper influences in the discharge of official duty; sec- ond, who has protected whiskey thieves ; third, who has practised villanies in the name of party; fourth, whose name is Grant. Let the President inquire of some neighbor if this description applies to him, and if it does he is the man to whom Mr. Henderson referred in these passages. Pulpit Topics To-Day. If there is one occupation more silly than another it is that of hewing out broken cisterns that can hold no water. And yet many a man in this city is engaged in sub- stantially that sort of work. To all such we commend what Mr. MacArthur will have to say on this subject to-day. A question that is often asked by men who are urged to enter upon a Christian life is, Willit pay? Mr, Knapp will answer that question, and show in part what compensation follows Christ's service, and why men should resolve at once to enter it and become successful in this life and in the life to come. If self-interest will not induce them Dr. Fulton's motive, love, should constrain them to plant their feet upon the immovable foundation. If the number of hearts in this city that are full of spiritual arrows could be held up to public gaze what a sad sight we should behold! Dr. Armitage will take one such heart and make it a theme for his meditation this morning, and Mr. Leavell will present a per- fect atonement for acceptance by his hearers. There are many plain facts about religion, and Mr. Hepworth knows a few of them, which he will tell his people to-day; ‘and one ofthe plainest, and yet most frequently for- gotten, is that God giveth strength according toour day. Who can tell how many weary ones laid down their heads last night to sleep, but could not? They will rise this morning in quest of rest and comfort, A word may do them good, and Mr. Saunders has just that word for them, and in uttering it he may be the herald of their redemption. Few of us know or can conceive of all that is implied in being sons of God, but Mr. Lloyd will give us his conception of this filial relation, which reaches beyond this life into the next, where, as Mr. Johns will show, the recognition of friends is not only possible but is actual experience, and where also, as Mr. Willis will demonstrate, the love of God in the salvation of the world will be | better appreciated and more fully recognized than it can be here. The gate ajar will be opened by Mr. Phelps, and while the earth is burning up and the preparations for the general judgment are going forward Mr. Harris will tell us how the home of the saints will appear. Dr, Rogers will have something good and practicable to say about Congress and the Church ; Dr, Talmage and Mr. Lynn will discuss the Bible and school uestion, and Mr. McCarthy will reply to | Dr. Talmage’s last Sunday Bible-in-school | talk. Mr, Pullman will give us all just what we need—help for hard times, Dr. Preston will explain how the eucharist is the foun- tain of life and Mr. Snow will figuratively gather into one perfect Church all the scat- tered children of God, And then shall that good time havecome which in song and story we have been taught to expect and wait for. , 9 nh AND THE Ai pio Gzoorapni- o The isan Geographical Society has deferred a discussion of Mr. Stan- ley's explorations in Central Africa uxtil its chtef geographers could accurately estimate. the importance of his discoveries. On Monday evening the council and fellows will assem- ble in Chickering Hall, where not only Mr. Stanley’s perilous journeyings will receive pictorial illustration, but the maps of the Arabian geographers, the cartography of Ptolemy, Ortelius’ conception of the globo and many other authorities bearing upon this most interesting subject will be exhib- ited, and then discussed by Chief Justice Daly, Bayard Taylor and others. It is grati- fying to find that the Geographical Society has not ignored the value of Mr. Stanley's explorations. Dr. Petermann has predicted that Mr. Stanley will accomplish more in the brief year before him than has been achieved in all the twenty centuries gone by, and learned societies which turn their attention to geography can scarcely ignore the labors of a man of whom this is said by a great geog- rapher. Tse Presrent has sent the bills for the entertainment of the King of the Sandwich Islands to Congress. We trust that there will be no difficulty about paying these bills promptly. They should be examined by a committee and paid without delay. A govern- ment cannot afford to do like our Board of Aldermen—dicker and quarrel over the items ofa bill for entertaining a royal guest. The time will come when gentlemen of rank and authority will decline all hospitalities in America, except those which come from the people, unless we treat them with some de- corum. Tue Sznare anp Assempiy Investigating Committee were engaged respectively in ex- amining the Croton Water and the Charities and Correction Departments. Bigger pipes was said to be the main want of the former— pure water was not mentioned—and a come plete reconstruction of buildings and sys- tems, Commissioner Bailey said were needed in the latter. T weep still enjoys his security, and, if not in the embraces of mal de mer, probably reads daily in the Hxraxp the interesting en- deavors to return him to the yearning arms of Sheriff Conner, who would probably kill the fatted calf if he could cast his eyes over the Prodigal. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Jenny Lind is in failing health, Belle Boyd is lecturing in the South, Senator Logan has looked at the taco card of death, but is getting well. ‘They are shipping apples direct from Grand Rapids, Mich., to Rotterdam, Holland. The report has been started on the rounds ofthe press that ex-Senator James W. Nye has been dis- charged from an insane asylum. The French make out of chicken feathers a kind of down, which sells for $2 a pound. Ex-Confederate General Forrest, of Fort Pillow fame, has joined the Presbyterian Church, Bismarck, in spite of bis long parliamentary experi- ence, is still by no means a fluent speaker, ‘The Czar is making a long visit to the Crimea, and his Ministers have not seen him for two months. Mr. Corooran, of Washington, has decided to spend the winter tn the South for the benefit of his health, Count Von Arnim will pass the winter at San Remo, Italy, the watering place where Rossi's son recently died. Prince Alexander of Holland, second eon of King William III, has arrived at Brussels on his way to Algeria, The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist thinks that Southern farms are better places of investment than Northern, saving tobacco, Mr. Spurgeon had symptoms of gout while at Mar- seilles, and could not move for some days, but is much better, and is able to proceed on his journey, Many lives that are now sacrificed on railways might be saved if railway officials possessed just sufficient surgical knowledge to enable them to attend to the im- mediate wants of the sufferers, Castelar is treated with great honor in Paris. Grand banquets to him have been given by ex-President Thiers and Victor Hugo, at which all the jocal literary and political celebrities were present, It is stated that the French are paying particular attention to perfecting their troops in the night manmuvres in which the Germans were 60 successful during the recent Franco-German war. Colonel E, W. Rector, of Hot Springs, Ark., who on- joys the reputation of being the handsomest man in the State, has recently married Miss Rosebud Alcorn, daughter of Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi. William Lloyd Garrison on Friday observed his fifti- eth anniversary at Newburyport by taking bis place as @ veteran volunteer compositor on the Werald of that city, on which he set type a half century ago. ‘At Charnod a young sculptor of recognized morit has been charged by the Ministry of Fine Arts with the care of ropairing the statue of Napoleon I., overthrown, with the Vendome Column, by order of the Commune. One of the handiest of recent inventions is the rail- way car lamp for tho use of passengers. Compact, cleanly and quickly arranged, it willbe a boon to passengers who wish to read at night while jour. neying. ‘The Maréchal de Faber at a siege was pointing outa placo with his finger. he spoke a musket bal; carried off the Ginger. Instantly stretching out another he continued bis discourse, “Gentlemen, as I was say- ing?— Prosident Eliot, of Harvard, says, in a recent letter, “The great educational need of the West, and of the whole country, indeed, is good schools devoted exclu- sively to Otting boys thoroughly for colleges of high standard." A memorial in the form of am obelisk of Peterhead granite, twenty-one feet high, was on Tuesday last raisod over the remains, at Kinloch Rannoch, of Dugald Buchanan, a Gaelic poet of some note among Gaelic- speaking people. Mr. Korr’s father was never a rich man, but be hada very narrow escape from it, He sold bis farm near Titusville, Pa, in 1854, for $9,500; the next year petro- loum was discovered on it, and not long after it was sold for over $250,000, Some mythicai Texan, or some densely ignorant resi. dent of that unenlightened district, has applied to Mayor Stokley, of Philadelphia, for permission to “ar. rango a bull fight”” during the Centennial year on some space adjacent to the Exhibition grounds. Hon, George Williamson, of Louisiana, Minister to Central America, will, we are informed, be nominated on Monday for United States District Judge in the place of ox-Judge Duroll, and it is said he will be the nominee of the republican party for Governor of Louisiana, Major Asa B. Gardner, United States Army, Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry at Chicago, which is to try General Babcock, graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1860, took the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the New York University two years later, entered the volunteer army at the breaking out of the war, was promoted and transferred to the regular service and is now Professor of Law at tho West Point Military Academy. After “Uncle Daniel Drew’? had subscribed $200,000 toward founding a new Mothodist college he remarked tu a friend one day:—"Well, sir, { didn’t know whore the money was coming from. 1 was worried over it, and so made it a subject of prayer, After fasting and praying over the matter for one day I went down on Wall street, and in less than twonty-tour hours £ skinned those fellows out of $200 000% fonda Glove Democrat