The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 187 INEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. TAMES GORDON BEN PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic | cespatches must be addressed New Yous | izrarp. Letters and packages should be properly Bealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. eae i 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. VOLUME Xi - BO! Bowery.—SUNSIIN SAN FRANC CO MINSTR ‘Wow Opera House, Brow peek. WOOL Broadway. corner of Thirt at a RPM, UM, street.—THE CUT GLOVE, . Jule Keen, GLOBE THEATRE, Nos. 728 sud 730 Broadway.—VARILTY, ML. Fwenty-third street ASM. Mr. Laws THEATE No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P.M UE THEATRE, THIRD AV 4 jeth and Thirty-trst streets.— rd avenne, between Thi PANORAMA, at 51’. M. COLO: Bhirty fourth stroet and Br PRUSSIAY PARIS. Open from 1P. M. to 42. Ms and trom ‘to. P. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. S$ THEATRE, ? t.—HOME, at §P. M.; closes et 10:40 P.M. Mr. Les PARISIAN VAR ES. Bixteenth street, near Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BROOKLYN THEATRE, ‘Washineton street, Brooklyn.—OUR BOYS, atS P.M. Mr. Joba BE. Owens, CHICKERING Fifth avenue and Eighteenth ‘on Bulow. NCERT, at2 P. M. UNION SQUAR! Propdway and Fourteouth str EAT = ROS. RE, & MICHEL, at 8 OLYMP No. 624 Broadway.—VART ZATRE, SP. N. FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty eighth street, near Broadway.—PIQUE, at 8 P.M. | Paany Daveuport, TONY PASTOR? Nos. 585 and 87 Broadway. PARK THEATRE Broadway and Twenty second street.—THE WIDOW HUNT, ets PM. John Dulon \4 EATRE, rat 82M. HEATRE, FAG Broadway and Thirty-third street.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. | TRIPLE SHERT. 4 KEW york, ‘SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1876, a From our reports this morning the probabilities aire that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain, Tnx Gxnarp py Fasr Mau, Trains.—News- Gealers 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 tines of the Iludson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railyoads and their con- nections, till be supplied with Tae Hearn, Tree of postage. Exiraordinery inducements offered lo newsdealers ly sending their orders direct to this office. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—The market opened firm, but later declined, with prices comparatively lower shan on the previous day. Gold retained its strength, advancing 14 percent. Money on call was in request at seven per cent, gold. Axronso has given permission to several exiled gencrals to return to Spain. He evi- dently wants all he can get of that article. Snow 1x Gurevzcoa means that the Carl- ists have immunity until springtime, and how long after who kno Morr Cannon ror Crna the answer of Spain to America's project to intervene and end the war. In other words, intervene if you are able. Dr. Srnovspenc, the bankrupt, who is accused of gigantic swindling operations, has been allowed to leave his prison in Moscow on condition that he will remain in the city until his trial is over. Evidently they have not heard of Tweed out there. One or Tuosz Strancr Srortes of domes- tic unhappiness which make our dull courts seem romantic is told in our reports to-day. A court reporter might be called the modern Asmodeus, who reveals to the public the most sacred mysteries of private life. Concentration oy Nava Fonces,—If the administration does not intend war it is cer- tainly preparing for the possibility of | trouble. The concentration of our navy in | Southern waters still continues, as our de- spatches show. The Navy Department has made several semi-official explanations of these movements, but none of them are as significant as the facts. There is so much mystery at Washington just now that tho country will not be satisfied by the assurance that it has nothing to apprehend. Mr. Swrevenye’s New Porem.--We give elsewhere somo extracts from the latest emanation of this gifted British writer. He is evidently improving in _ his manner, which means that he is eliminat- ing his most glaring faults. The de- scription of the. battle in rectheus” is in'what may be termed the Swinburnian rhymed measuro—one combining the greatest vigor with the greatest melody. In the blank verse, particularly tho scene of the sacrifice of Chthonia, it will be seen that the influence of the idyllic Tennyson upon the fiery young bard has been as noticeable as it issalutary. From the judicious min- gling of these two styles could be produced the grandest epic triumphs of the age. Swinburne’s breadth, force and subtlety, allied to the sweetness, Aelicacy and clear depth of Tennyson, could produce wonderful results. In ‘Atalanta in Calydon” we had abundant promise, which Freothous” goes far to redeem. corner of wonty-ninth street, | Matinee at | vur Cable Despatches—The Thougnt | of Three Cities. An outline of what was thought on political, theatrical, religious and finan- | cial topics in London yesterday is laid before subjects that were deemed of moment in Paris also are spread in our columns. Our city brokers and bankers may follow intel- lectually the operations of their fraternity in the money capital of the world, and literary men, musicians, painters, poets, dressmakers and politicians may discuss with the facts before them the themes that amuse and be- wilder the world’s Vanity Fair at this very so near together that their minds deal with the same thoughts at the same time some substantial progress seems to be realized toward that ideal condition when the whole human race will act in sympathy on the great aims and aspirations of a common des- tiny. On the Continent of Europe there are some twenty languages spoken, and here the | English language is spread over an extent as great nearly as that covered by the whole twenty ; but the history of languages makes it certain that within a century the people of the various parts of this country would be as little able to understand one another as Englishmen and Germans are but for such a means of preserving the unity of language | as the newspapers, which, printed in one city, circulate and are read in every other, As the press thus bids fair to preserve unity of lan- guage over an extent to which one language was never before spread in the history of the human race, so it has already been greatly influential with us in keeping up that unity of civilization and political system which carried us through our great crisis and still preserves us one people ? and it seems to be the great function for the future of journal- ism to do by means of the cable for the peo- ple of the civilized world just what the press has done in this regard for the people of the United States. In our Paris letter is to be seen the dazzling variety of Paris life. International politics and millinery move side by side. ‘Grave ; men with hoary hairs,” their thoughts on consols and furniture of that sort, will cogitate deeply the hint that war alarms are unabated, and the ladies will vent their | pretty impatience at the solemn and awful declaration that there is nothing new in bonnets “yet.” But there is as much virtue in this ‘‘yet” as there was in Touchstone's “if,” for it clearly includes and implies a promise. Parisian imagination, therefore, will not be unfruitfal on this tremendously important point through a whole season. It will not leave the pretty faces of the civilized world to pine in a style of bonnet a full month old, nor gentle hearts to experience the dreadful ‘sense of goneness” at the thought that there will never be another new bonnet. By and by there will be a new bon- net; in a little while, before the violets bloom, perhaps-—-and the violets ‘come be- fore the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.” But if Paris has not a new bonnet to offer, behold what it gives in silks, satins' and velvets! For beauty of color, for quality, for originality in the designs, they are ‘“cnparalleled,” This does not mean that they surpass all fabrics made in Italy, Eng- land, Germany, or at Paterson, in New Jersey ; for in this particular the world must say to Paris as the poet said to the states- man, ‘None but thyself can be thy parallel.” They are ‘‘unparalleled” even by what has hitherto been shown at Paris—the products of the genius of the Parisian ateliers and of the looms of Lyons, Steel, mother of pearl and foliage are mentioned as the more bril- liant of the effects produced by these new styles in dress fabrics. Here, then, the ladies of superb proportions may find a ma- terial that will give to their figures as grand an effect as might the sheeny panoply of the Maid of Orleans, while the lesser may, in mother of pearl, be as sparkingly uncertain as even Undine herself ; and those who would keep shady may yet, in any variety of | foliage, ‘‘dazzle when the sun goes down and rob the world of rest." There are few direc- tions that art has taken in modern times so notable as that in which, by the looms of | France, so wonderfully invented, the designs of her artists, so freshly conceived and taste- fully combined, the manipulations of her chemists, so microscopically just, so loath- ; some a creature as the bombyz mori is turned into those marvellous fabrics, whose most conspicuous result is to make women, at least the majority of them, a great deal handsomer than nature ever intended them | tobe, Any ladies who dislike this senti- ment may regard themselves as part of the minority. There is always one striking feature in the news from Paris, which is the remark- | able activity of the world of persons who cater to the amusement of the public. One establishment—the Théitre Lyrique—re- cently opened, has already received from composers the scores of twenty-six operas offered for representation. Even this is not the most astonishing part of the story, for it is further recorded that six of these scores ‘have been accepted by the’ management. | They are, therefore, not the same old twenty- six that have been offered to every new man- | agement for half a century, for the six which | have been accepted by a judicious manage- | mentimplies that there isan unusual propor- | tion of fresh and lively fancies in these scores. | No doubt the very great success of Offen- ; bach and Lecoeq has stimulated production in the style of music they have made popular. | This style certainly fulfils in a greater degree | than any other the real function of music. | It cheers the life of the many, its casily | remembered strains fill every home with gay | vivacity, and where a hundred amateurs | gravely thumbed the pages of the masters | ten years since now fifty thousand proselytes | demonstrate on the drams of every man’s ears their admiration for the new style, Out of this popularity the composers have reaped ' easy fortunes, and the authors of the twenty- six new scores have probably had their imag- inations warmed by consideration of that fact. notable illustration of musical fecundity. By the centennial year we find that we have pro- duced thirty-seven States, but when shall we produce twenty-six operas ? London's news budget is not wanting in | the lighter elements. It has its tale of | deamatio fecundity to tell in ovvosition to | our readers in the Heraxp to-day, and the | hour. With the nations of the world brought | But whatever the cause, it seems a | the Varisian dispiay on opera. But we fear the figures of the London Era, like those of | a New York savings bank manager, can be made to tell a brighter story than the facts warrant. Out of her two hundred and forty-seven “new” pieces it may be safe to say that one hundred and forty were taken from the French, and of the remainder nineteen out of twenty are like some of the savings banks Southern bonds, counting ten on their face to one in the market. Perhaps the oddest thing in the theatrical way is Dion Boacicault's letter to Disraeli pleading for the release of the remainder of the political prisoners, based on the approval which the amnesty scene in the ‘“Shaughraun” met at the hands of two thousand Londoners nightly forsome months past. Mr. Boucicault speaks on the side of merey, which is always credit- able, and as he doubtless takes his piece to Dublin he insures its run in the Emerald Isle for as long as he pleases. The unfra- grant ‘Little Emma” mine business is again brought to the surface, with the sorry story of “no mine, no ore and very little money.” If ever a swindle deserved exposure and punishment it is that one, and yet Mr. Schenck is still our Minister at St. James. Our bonds are strong abroad and likely to be stronger in spite of all the dross and scum of financial rottenness which has floated from time to time to the surface in America; but English public opinion has be- come assured that we mean to keep the foun- tains of our credit healthy. In joining the thought of two continents by the cable we The Mayor's Unfamiliarity with the City Charter. It is evident that our handsome Mayor has not expended much time on the study of the city charter and the laws relating to the municipal government. In his recent Mes- sage to the Common Council he naively re- marks, ‘There is a general misapprehension with regard to the sinking fund,” and pro- ceeds to illustrate the truth of the assertion by showing that he is ignorant of the exist- ence of two such funds—one forthe redemp- tion of the city debt and the other for pay- ment of interest on the city debt—and of the application of the laws relating thereto. This is not, however, the only instance in which the Mayor's unfamiliarity with the laws is manifested in his Message. In com- menting upon the reforms necessary ‘‘with regard to the obligations which may be ineurred, payable from the proceeds of taxa- tion”—that is to say, the obligations that may be incurred against the amounts appro- priated annually for the expense of carrying on the government—the Mayor tells us that the courts have given judgment against the city, although it has been shown that no moneys remain to the credit of the account against which the claim is made. The decision of the courts has been that where a sufficient amount to satisfy the claim can be shown to have stood to the credit of the account at the time the lia- bility originated out of which the claim arises the plaintiff has a right to recover, even though there were prior claims then are doing as much to frighten rascality out of our finances as to please the millions who trouble themselves about less weighty mat- ters, The Turkish ‘Troubles. ‘The European Powers do not seem at all satisfied with the Porte’s own steps toward reform, as put forth in the Sultan’s recent firman. This we are not surprised at, for the firmans of Constantinople, except those enjoining the collection of fresh taxes, are regarded very much as Mr. Micawber's prom- issory notes—things expressive of honest de- sire at the moment, but without the least basis for performance. France and Italy have joined the three empires in support of Andrassy’s proposal, bat England wants time to consider. Indeed, with her right hand upon Egypt, she can afford better than any of the other Powers to let matters shape themselves. The effect of the situation upon Austria is more visible. Ger- many and Russia have wisely made her the formulator of the demands of Christian civ- ilization, and her warlike activity shows that this has left her open to the first strain from approaching trouble, All the little Christian governments that bound in the Turk are in a state of ferment and hasty armament, and the temper of the Porte’s answer to Andras- sy's note is not likely to cool matters down. It must be remembered that the difficulties in the way of the Porte’s guaranteeing the execution of the promised reforms come as much from the stubbornness and bigotry of the Osmanli population as from the Suitan’s disinclination to have his government practically adminis- tered by outsiders. To Austria this unsatis- factory state of affairs is almost as bad as a war, ‘To Russia, whose expectations are the greatest, it does not come amiss, for at her ease she can secretly prick on Turkey to its destruction and quietly keep the flame burning among the Sclaves of the Danube until Austria, like a long-goaded bull, rushes in, carrying all before it. To Germany it is a game, “heads I win, tails you lose ;” her profit is equally in Austria's good or ill for- tune with Turkey. Germany and England, | then, can best wait, but to the student of that branch of statesmanship the moves upon the diplomatic chessboard of Europe for the next few months will be as full of interest as those on the wider field of war that begins where diplomacy ends may be to the soldier. The South and the Centennial, It is the fatality of politicians to do the right thing at the wrong time and to refrain from doing it at theright time. This truism is aptly illustrated by the attitude of the op- posing parties in Congress regarding the Union soldiers. During the uninterrupted rule of the republicans it was possible for the party in power to do everything for the | faithful servants of the Republic necessary to be done. We believe that all that was necessary was done, but no sooner were the democrats in the majority in one branch of Congress than the minority began to pelt the House with resolutions full of fulsome com- pliments to the Union soldiers, but intended | only to irritate the majority. This was in bad taste, to say the least of it, and already it is bearing evil froit’ Basing their opposi- tion on this spirit of antagonism to the South, we are told that the Southern representatives have resolved to oppose an appropriation for | the Centennial, unless the republicans keep | quiet about the soldier and agree to pass a universal amnesty bill. Weare in favor of these propositions, because it is unnecessary to reopen the old wounds by constant allu- sions to the Union soldier, while it is neces- sary that these wounds should be healed by an amnesty already too long withheld. At the same time we cannot justify the attitude of Southern Congressmen on the Centennial. | By opposing an appropriation for the Exhi- bition they show the very spirit they are condemning in the republicans, We hope | they will think better of this matter and not oppose the Centennial merely because the | republican party has been unjust to the | South. existing sufficient to exhaust the entire ap- propriation. The Mayor says:—‘‘The reason for the decision seems to be that, as the law now stands, persons dealing with the city cannot be charged with knowledge of the claims of others upon unexpended balances in the treasury.” The Mayor then makes some profound suggestions designed to remedy this evil. He proposes that ‘an amendment of the statute be made, requir- ing that a schedule, open to public inspec- tion, be kept in each departinent, and, per- haps, published in the City Record, not only of the amounts appropriated to each account, but also of the outstanding contracts and of the liabilities incurred payable from each, and that every one proposing to deal with the department must take notice of the fact that, as there are no means provided with which to make payments under a contract with him, the contract itself, even if made by the department, would be unauthorized and could not be enforced against the city.” These suggestions are no doubt full of wisdom. They display the workings of a young and vigorous legal mind. But as the law already provides in a much more effi- cient manner against the making of con- tracts in excess of the amount of any appro- priation ‘‘payable from the proceeds of tax- ation,” they are unnecessary. If the Mayor will turn to article 5, section 29, of the city charter, he will find these words:—‘No contract hereafter made, the expense of the execution of which is not by law or ordi- nance in whole or in part to be paid by assessments upon the property benefited” — ie¢, the expense of the execution of which is to be paid wholly from the proceeds of tax- ation—‘‘shall be binding or of any force or effect unless the Comptroller shall indorse thereon his certificate that there remains un- expended and unapplied, as herein provided, a balance of the appropriation applicable thereto suflicient to pay the estimated ex- pense of executing such contract as certified by the officer making the same.” We give this information to the Mayor with pleasure, and without making any charge against the contingent fund of the youthful and brilliant Corporation Counsel. Thoughts of the Religious Press. Akin to the discussion of the proposi- tion to tax church property is that con- cerning the privileges accorded to clergy- men, with which the Independent starts off, editorially, this week. It places in juxtaposition their disabilities and their privileges, and it sees no good reason why clergymen should be distinguished from any other class, in either the privileges or burdens of society. Their citizenship ought to entitle them, as a matter of right, to all the privileges granted to the great body of citizens, and the same fact ought to subject them to all the responsibilities and duties which are generally borne and performed by other people. The Methodist discusses the real power and the real danger of the Republic. ‘The real danger is in the ascendancy of any one religious denomination, Protestant or Catholic, to the government of the country, and the real power is in the intelligence and culture and moral sense of the people of all sections, classes and color. The Methodist, while favoring Mr. Blaine’s amendment, deprecates sectarian legislation, and adds that all possiBle legislation for the defeat of Jesuits will be as nothing compared with the work of our Sunday schools and the evangel- ical preaching of our churches. The Jewish Times is justly angry with Evangelist Moody, who, last Wednesday, in one of his addresses in Philadelphia, characterized all the Jews as “Christ killers,” and declared that His blood is upon them to-day in that they are wanderers all over the world. The Times refers Mr. Moody to history to convince him that this crime, if it was a crime, was committed, not by the Jews, who had no authority in the matter, but by the Romans, who ruled the country. And, furthermore, according to Mr. Moody's own religion, those who did the deed, whether Jew or Gentile, were the unconscions ‘tools in the hands of the Almighty to accomplish that Tue Bonpen Troveres in Texas are as- | suming a more unhopeful aspect every day. | | The acquittal of Cortina brings back afire-_ | brand to Matamoros, and the fact that | | the war party in Brownsville receives this | | news with joy shows how hopeless people | generally are of a peaceful settlement. We are profoundly sorry that Cortina has been | set free, as we may look for a renewal of the | cattle thieving and murder of settlers at any | business, for war with anybody is not to the | taste of America this year, | ‘Tux Axxvat Rerort of the Police Depart- | | ment, published elsewhere, contains many | } interesting facts and figures. At the close of | 1875 New York had 2,492 police officials, and | during thr year 91,163 arrests had been | mada day. We wish to proceed cautiously in this which had been preordained should be done, Indeed we do not see any good reason for identifying the Jews of this or of any other age with the crucifixion of Christ save those who participated iu the act at the time; and the Christian Biblical history clearly indi- cates, and Mr, Moody onght to have known it, that it was the act of a city mob led on by a few politicians and priests, and not the act ! of the Jewish people, nor of the majority of those resident in Jerusalem. Mr, Moody has allowed his name and influence to be associated with a slang phrase, and has thus done great harm to more than one hundred thousand of the best citizens of America. The Tablet, deprecating sectarianism in politics, says the Catholic Church has been always very sensitive in this country about the slightest appearance of interfering in poli- ties. Never could there have happened in 6.—TRIPLK SHEET. any Catholic clerical assembly here what took place in the Boston Methodist meeting on the part of Bishop Haven without discon- tent and disapproval being at once made manifest. The Christian at Work and the Intelligencer pay their respects to the proposition of the Jersey City priest to the Board of Education, to take the Catholic schools and use them as public schools, The first named journal thinks Father Hennessey is ‘trying it on” to get the State to pay for sectarian education. It wants the Jersey City School Board to treat the proposition as the New York board has done, The Intelligencer thinks the priest has got an expensive job on his hands which he wants to throw over on the State ; but, while it hopes the Board of Education will make provision for the education of those six hundred children, it hopes they will not entertain Father Hennessey's prop- osition. The Lvangelist reviews the ground of controversy between Catholics and Prot- estants on the school question, and its sum- ming up is that the issue presented by Cath- olics is not Bible or no Bible in schools, nor secular schools or no schools, but the support of Roman Catholi¢ schools by the State or the breaking up of the whole public school system. The Observer urges its readers not to wait for the coming of Moody and Sankey here, but to exhibit di- vine truths to the people, so as to arrest the attention of this city and stop for a month its supreme devotion to worldliness and sin, The Musical and Dramatic Seuson. The musical and dramatic season is now at its height. The last three or four months have been busy ones with our managers, for though the number of our theatre-goers is enormous, and larger in proportion to population than that of any other American city, we have so many theatres that their rivalry is intense. This incessant competition is fortunate for the public, for it raises the standard of our stage. In some respects the season has been very strong. Shakespeare has been well treated. Besides the Hamlets of Messrs. Sullivan and Davenport there was Edwin Booth's engagement at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, including his revival of ‘Richard IL,” and now we have the grand Roman pic- ture of “Julius Casar” at Booth’s. In the romantic drama and melodrama we have had “Rose Michel” and ‘Pique,” both of which are established at their respective houses for months tocome. The reign of comedy at Wallack’s Theatre has been brilliant in the extreme, and ‘Caste,” ‘The Overland Route,” ‘Bosom Friends” and other bright plays have been followed by the reappear- ance of Mr. Wallack himself, which, after his absence of two years from the stage, is an event of importance in the dramatic world. Then Mr. and Mrs. Florence gave us over a hundred nights of broad and enjoyable American comedy at the Park. Finally, the season had an extraordinary personal sensa- tion when Mr. Oakey Hall made his début in “Crucible.” Actors have before this become mayors, but it is rarely that a mayor has ambition enough to be an actor. Other per- sonal events, but of an absolutely painful nature, were the insanity of Mr. George L. Fox, the enforced retirement of Miss Clara Morris, the accident to Mr. Fechter, the death of Mr. Belmore and the illness of sey- eral popular favorites. We have had excellent German comedy, and the French company at the Lyceum is the best New York has seen for years, In music we have been less fortunate. The Wachtel opera season was not entirely satisfactory, and seemed toward the close to degenerate into a discord behind the scenes which was hardly favorable to harmony be- fore the footlights, Still, it had considerable | merits. Of Italian opera we wnfortunately | had nothing, but now Mr. Strakosch an- nounces that Mlle. Titiens will appear this month in some of her celebrated riéles, Norma and Lucrezia, and, we trust, Medea and Fidelio. This ought to be a compensa- tion for the deprivations of the past few months. Von Biilow’s concerts have, of course, had a profound interest for our mu- sical public, and Theodore Thomas’ orshes- | tra and the Philharmonic Society have fully sustained their reputations as the exponents | of the classics. Many more events of the | season might be recapitulated, but we have | only desired to indicate its wealth and va- i riety. If it has not been without several unfortunate elements of weakness, still it cannot be denied that, taken as a whole, it has thus far been brilliant, strong, full of |*njoyment, and, both in pecuniary and ar- tistic respects, a success. Work for Mr. Bergh. We are deeply pained at the sorrow of New York's eminent philohippist, who, like Rachel, mourns and will not be comforted. There are hearts so sympathetic that every | human or animal woe is absorbed into them ; they suck in a grief like asponge and will only give it out to make place for another. When @ great man dics and is spoken of only as a statesman he goes coldly into history ; but if he leaves a memory of tender-heartedness, how warmly he glows in its pages! When Mr. Hamilton Fish, for instance, is gathered to his fathers, his name will live as coldly ‘as striped bass ; but there will beno ice around our Bergh when the galled horses of the | | Broadway "buses know him no more for- | ever. His heart is heavy just now with | | canine griefs. Let butthe humblost mongrel | how] within a dozen blocks of him and he | runs with streaming eyes to enjoin silence on the misguided animal that bas not heard | of the ‘dog ordinance”—that Herodian ediet | for a second slaughter of the innocents. | Now, we cannot spare Mr. Bergh just yet. We would have him drown a sorrow that is already almost too much for him by plung- ing into another bath of animal suffering. In another part of the Hznatp we print tho details of a brutal cock fight which took | place in Westchester county on Friday night. | Our reporter does not inform us of the exact spot where it eventuated, His lipsare closed. | To Mr. Bergh this should be a splendid op- | portunity. Here beautiful birds, the poet's | emblem of the breaking morn, are killed to make a holiday, and nota potpie. Mr. Bergh | should look out for these occasions, where | | “blood cannot ease the bitter lust” of those | who join in them ; for we read that after the | fight they made merry till daylight, and then | had “the loose feathers brnahed from their —$$$ $$$ $$$ clothes™ and took ‘‘a good wash,” possibly to take the crimson lifetide of the perished roosters off their hands. Mr. Bergh should prevent these violations of the law. pen acer eo aan elas Pulpit Topics To-Day. The pastors who are not engaged in de- claring the ultimate triumph of Christianity according to the programme of the Week ot Prayer will vary their themes, so that every class and condition of hearers may find something to suit. Mr. Kennard will hold up the barren fig tree, spared as an evidence of divine merey toward sinners, Mr, Hep- worth has a cripple on hand, which he found at Lystra, and the story of his disability and his cure will be told for the benefit of this, generation, as it has been told for the benefit of others for ages. Mr. Lloyd will figura tively wipe away the tears of Jesus, draw back the curtains of heaven and show his people the white-robed multitude, and, lead- ing them on, Dr. Miller will point out the Lamb of God, whose mediatorial Lordship Dr. Bright will also exalt. Bishop Snow will be engaged to-day, too, in opening tho temple of God in heaven and giving his flock a peep into the celestial mansions. Mr. McCarthy will unbolt the gates of hell and let its inmates out if they can come; and besides this work he will undertake to harmonize the Mosaic account of creation with the known facts of geology. Minister- ing spirits and infidels may not have much in sympathy, but Mr. Lightbourn will make a point or two on each to-day. Mr. Knapp will make it clear that Christian fruitfulness is the evidence of discipleship of Christ, and Mr. Leavell will show that negleet of salva- tion and escape of the consequences of such neglect are incompatible, Mr, Merritt will present the ultimate triumph and Mr. Jutten the law of Christian giving and Christ as the only source of eternal life. Mr. Harris will draw a spiritual lesson from the New Year's call and the visitor who asked for admission to many hearts, but was refused. Mr, Seitz will speak about women’s work, and Mr. Brittan about their rights under a demo- cratic government, Dr. Galleher will preach the anniversary sermon before the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of this city, and Mr. Siegmund will speak about German liturgies before the Church German Society. Mr, Clarke will consider the relation of Catholics to the public schools, and give his mature thoughts thereon. And thus wo shall have the opportunity to travel from earth to heaven, taking in schools and churches and other luxuries and necessities by the way. The Battle of New Orleans. Before the late war obliterated the memory of earlier military events the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was always cele- brated with great pomp and circumstance. Since the rebellion, however, the practice has fallen into desuetude, and our news col- umns this morning scarcely indicate a con- sciousness on the part of the people that therg ever was a battle of Now Orleans. Even in the Crescent City itself there was no celebration worthy of the occasion—in fact, we may say there was no celebration at all. This is not as it should be. Thero is no better way of preserving the liberties of a free people than by celebrating their martial glories, and in our whole history no battle reflected greater credit upon American arms than the battle of New Orleans. For half a century it stood alone as the last battle fought on American soil, aud even now it is the most recent contest of an American army with a foreign foe within our own ter- ritory. As much as any event in our history it served to give the United States a high place among the nations of the earth, and it | gave to the country one of the greatest states- men who ever held the Presidential office. The battle of New Orleans was the crowning honor of General Jackson's military career. For all these reasons the commemoration of this event should not be overlooked, and we hope that hereafter the celebration of the 8th of January will serve not only to recall the glories of the past, but be in itself a fit- ting memorial of the day. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Joell, the musician, will visit America. German guns will hereafter (re shrapnel. Guerilla Mosby is stiil freodly with Grant Historian Froude is visiting Lord Carnarvon Ex-Surrogate Huichings bas suiled for Surope. A paper by Grote, on Aristotle, has been discovered. The Duke of Kainbargh will command the Monarch, M. Littré, new Freach Senator, is the leading apos- tle of Comte. ‘The Booapartists alone are masters of parliamentary law in France, A tlock of sheep in Maine has grown wild, and feed on scaweed in winter, M. Lanfrey, author of the great “History of Napo- leon,” is now a French Senator. Nime-teuths of the immigrants to the Southern States land at the port of New Orleans, Jimmy Blanchard 1s not Charley Ross, alter all; but he'd make a good weather reporter, Lord Derby says that people must not seek learning Xpect that it will bring money. Marriages have not ceased om account of hard times, end, therefore, the doliar stores thrive The Woman's Journal waras young girls to look ont for the men who want to make “sisters” of them, Mr. Robert Graut Watson, First Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, ts sojourning at tho Brevoort House. Mules are being raised oD an extensive scale in Europe for dragging artillery and t@ Wisconsin tor Tunning newspapers. Chicago Times :—Taglionl, the danseuse, is worth $3,000,000; Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, is uot worth acenk Yet both are evolutionists. ‘A Reading git! will insist on weartng boys’ clothes, and her father advertises for a remedy, Dress up » young fellow tn girls’ clothes and marry ber off. Mamma—“On earth as it is im heaven.” Georgio— “grt ‘tis in heaven.’ Mamma—‘“Give as this day our daily bread.” Georgie—"“Mamma, is Ho 8 baker 7’ Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Journal, does not believe in inventing uew words, and yet he expects s Washington barkeeper to know what he means by “‘gioinsngar. ‘When Andrew White heard that the Cornot! girt tad’ won the Greek prize, be rolled down his shirt sieeve over his broom-splint arm and said, “‘nongh rowing for me, sis; where's my pullback 7” We road ‘The Song of 1876,” and thought, “Why should the papers print this staff?" when there at whe bottom was the name of Bayard Taylor; and yot we were honest ia thinking {t was stu Uli the name ap “My dear,"’ said a Cincinnat! packer to his daughter, “a regular Murillo painting bas been discovered i out city,"” “sit water color, pa?” “No, my dear, it’s @ real hog’s oi! painting.” And the young lady screamed, “Oh, Lard!’ Bishop Haven may be a political foolor not; bal when such papers as the Mobile Mégisler doscend U hint that be himself knows what it is to like tho sexua association of white men with negresses they becom simply as Githy as (he idea they bint at