The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Your cents Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hear. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communicati turned, per copy. s will not be re- 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 2s in New York, VOLUME Xi AMUSEMENTS | '10- 0.17 NIGHT. TIVO: Eighth street, near Yhird THEA EATRE, MARRIED IN HASTE, Mr, Lester Wallack. co Phirty-fourth street and Grom 1P. M. to 4 P.M it, PANORAMA Open 40 P.M. to 10 P.M, df ES, [ETY, at SP. M. BROOKL Washington street, Brook! Montague. RE. UNION SQUARE THEATRE EB MICHEL, at 8 Broadway and Fourteenth street.—KOS eM. ASSOCIATION HALL, Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue.—Lecture—CICERO- ROMAN CULTURE, at 8 P. Dr, Joba Lord, OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. i, TH AVENUE THEATRE, et, near Broadway.—PIQUE, at 8 P.M. ‘Twenty-cig! Fauuy Dave TONY PASTOR'S and 587 Broadway.—' uW THEATRE, Nos. RIETY, ats P.M. PARK THEATRE, ‘Broadway and Twenty-second street —A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS, ats P.M. John Dillon. EAGLE THEATRE Broadway and Thirty-third str 4 GER Fourteenth street.—G ANIA THEATRE, ZSTAEDTISCH, at 8P. M. Ww BO! THEATRE, Bowery. —THE PHOEN $8 P.M. Milton Nobles. LYCEUM THEA’ x ATRE, Fonrteenth street, near nue.—French Plays—LES | DOMESTIQUES, at 8 P. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, corner of Tweuty-ninth street, wt SPM. Woop's MU Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street WINENT, at & P. M.: closes at 10 Byron, Matinee at ‘CROSS THE CON- > P.M. Oliver Doud | GLOBE THEATRE, Nos. 723 and 790 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. JULIUS CAESAR, | ator M. Mr, Lawrence Barrett. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway,—VARIBTY, ats P. si THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Ehictavenae, between Thirtieth and Thity-firat streots.— VARIETY, at SP. M. | The Currency Question in Congress. It is already too evident that nothing prac- , or at least nothing valuable, is to be by Congress at this session on the im- portant subject of the currency. Three bills have been brought into the House by demo- cratic members—one by Mr. Payne, of Ohio, represented to be the fruit of a consultation or semi-caucus of leading democrats; one by | on Ways and Means, in preparing which he, | of course, took advice; the third by Mr. Fer- | nando Wood, representing, so far as yet ap- pears, only his individual views, Mr. Payne's bill and Mr. Morrison's bill are so similar in their general outlines that it would make little difference which of them is passed if the passage of either were possi- ble. Mr. Wood's bill, which contemplates the substitution of legal tender notes for the national bank circulation, isa more radical | measure than either of the others and a more isguised concession to the views of the n democrats. se three bills, though differing in some respects, have striking points of agreement. | They, one and all, contemplate a repeal of the act of the last Congress requiring a re- | sumption of specie payments January 1, | 1879. They also agree in postponing, for a , long period, any reduction in the amount | of the currency. They all alike seem to | have been framed with a political, instead | of a financial, purpose. They all attempt | to solve the difficult party problem of re- | storing harmony between the Eastern and | the Western democracy. | they may have, when judged by their real | aim as party devices for straddling a diffi- | culty, they are alike futile and worthless as | methods of reaching specie payments. None | of them has any chance of passing the re- i publican Senate, nor, if it could pass the Senate, of escaping the veto of the President and enabling him to emphasize his devotion to hard money in a message exposing the shallow trickery and egregious trifling of the democratic party, which, under a feigned zeal for resumption, makes a full surrender to the Ohio democrats. Mr. Payne's bill, which was first presented and does not differ in its leading features from that of Mr. Morrison, contemplates the accumulation of a specie reserve both in the ‘Treasury and the national banks, but leaves the present amount of the currency undis- | turbed for an indefinite period. In other | words, in intent and practical opera- tion it is an anti-contraction _ bill accommodated to the wishes of the Western democrats. It repeals the act of | last year providing for resumption in 1879, and requires the government to lay by an- nually five per cent of the amount of the greenbacks and the national banks five per cent of the amonnt of their circulation as a | reserve for the ultimate redemption of the paper currency. Resumption is not to take place until both the Treasury and the banks have a gold reserve equal to thirty per cent of their circulating notes. It would require six years to accumulate the amount of gold | prescribed by this bill, and specie payments could not be commenced under it until 1882. Within that period we are to have two Presi- dential elections and three new Congresses, | and the whole project is liable to be inter- rupted and upset if the inflationists should | Mr. Morrison, Chairman of the Committee | Whatever merit | sad tao ee bs eddhtuhidhasdteb | meanwhile gain any additional strength. From our reports this morning the probabilities | fo Ari agered caine waedtae are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with | attempts to contract the currency within the Pai - | ensuing six years, and if the democrats come Tue Henarp sy Fasr Mar Trans.—News- | into power the inflationists will no longer be Cealers and the public throughout the States of | restrained by political expediency. This New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as | bill isa transparent device for tiding the well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, | party over the Presidential election by a hol- the South and Southwest, also along the lines | low pretence of resumption six years hence, of the Hudson River, New York Central and | leaving the amount of the currency unaltered Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- | in the meantime. It yields the substance of nections, will be supplied with Tux Henaxn, | the thing in dispute to the Western demo- free of postage, #atraordinary inducements | crats, reserving nothing for the hard money offered lo newsdealers by sending their orders | wing but a vague and postponed hope. direct to this office. | If we were to examine this project as a | measure of finance instead of a party strata- ‘Tar Coat Tonreno, a description of which | we copy from a communication to the Lon- don Times, seems an embodiment of all the | destructive genius of the enemies of the human race. Tae Preranarions for Babcock’s trial are progressing, and the array of counsel which the indicted Secretary has retained shows that we shall have an interesting case to re- port, no matter which way the verdict goes. ‘Tue Rerorms which Andrassy's note would introduce into the local administration of the Turkish provinces are sketched in a de- spatch from Vienna. They are all needed, but whether the Sultan can apply them if ever so willing is not at a)l certain. Wiiuam A. 8: ss, the young Collector of Boston's port, is represented to be active in the third term interest in New England politics, and as he takes on the outward semblance of a ‘‘Boss,” on the New York model, the Hub+is alarmed. L[lsewhere the | signs and tokens of this development of the protégé of Uncle Ben are tre: Tue Sraxise Evectors are at present weighing the utterances of the various can- didates for seats in the Cortes, and the gov- ernment is wisely abstaining from being too strict in its dealings with the canvass of prominent republicans like Castelar, who do aot carry their views upon the form of gov- ernment to the extreme of the intransigentes and socialists. These latter were the bane of Castelar in his ts to establish a sensi- ble republic, and he will not be sorry for them, Taz Sexatontan Exzctioss, or rather the gem, we should find it exposed to fatal ob- | jections. Nobody qualified to form an opin- ion on such a subject can doubt that our car- | rency could be brought to par without pay- ing out any gold for its redemption. It is depreciated becanse it is redundant, and a withdrawal of the excess would surely en- hance its value. By gradually funding a portion of the greenbacks in long bonds the remaining volume of the currency could be safely and inexpensively brought to par. There is no practical necessity for a gold re- serve until this point is reached, the only use of such a reserve being to maintain the equilibrium and give the reqnisite elasticity to the circulating medium. Gold is not wanted to bring the currency to par but to maintain it there when the point shall have been reached by other means. Tf we already had the thirty per cent gold reserve in the Treasury and the banks which Mr. Payne’s bill seeks to accumulate in the course of six years, it is obvious that we ‘should be just as well prepared for specie payments now as we could be at the end of that period. But how would resumption operate with this stock of gold ready to be paid ont on demand? Why, on the very day the offer was made, a great volume of paper would be poured in for redemption, and within a week the gold reserves would be so far ex- housted as would be necessary for making the whole circulating medium equal to cain, But what good reason can be given for with- drawing it by so expensive and disturbing a process, when it might be done with equal efficiency by the simple method of funding the excess of greenbacks? | pony, If we had the | NEW YORK HERALD; MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1876. vised edition of that of Mr. Payne, is open to | 4mtermationat Congresses at the Cem-) pre Threatened Decttne or American | suffered severely for their fault. All the bite every objection which lies against the latter. They are identical in repealing the Resump- tion act of last winter; in postponing re- sumption until the Treasury and the banks have a reserve of gold equal to thirty per cent of their circulating notes; in leaving the present volume of the currency undisturbed until after such reserves shall have been ac- cumulated. There is oply one point of dif- ference between the two bills. Mr. Payne's bill requires the gold reserve both of the Treasury and the banks to be accumulated at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of their circulating notes, whereas Mr. Morrison’s bill does not provide for any such fixed and definite rate. It requires the government to set aside all its surplus coin for this purpose and the national banks to apply all the gold interest they receive on the bonds deposited to secure their circula- tion to be applied to the same use. This has an appearance of hastening matters more rapidly than the bill of Mr. Payne, but it is a cunningly contrived deception. It leaves a future democratic Congress at liberty, if the party should come into power, to stop the accumulation of gold in the Treasury altogether by so reducing the tariff, in accordance with the democratic tenet of free trade, that only gold enough would be collected to pay the interest on the public debt. Mr. Payne’s bill would bind the government to accumulate a sufficient re- serve in six years, but Mr. Morrison's would leave Congress at liberty to suspend the ac- cumlation at any time by carrying out the democratic demand for a great reduction of the tariff Both bills are framed with the same leading object, which is to postpone specie payments indefinitely under a decep- tive hard money mask, settling the quarrel with the Western democrats by giving them the oyster while the hard money democrats keep the shell. The Lonsdale Strike. ‘The strike at the Lonsdale and other mills belonging to the famous manufacturing house of Brown & Ives, on the Blackstone River, in Rhode Island, is upon a question so sim- ple that its wisdom depends entirely upon the equities in the case. that the reductions in the wages of the oper- atives during the last fow months have been enormous—thirty-three per cent since 1874. It is equally plain that one dollar per day is unremunerative wages for Rhode Island operatives. But there isa question back of all this upon which the solution of this prob- lem depends, and by which it will be necessary to judge of the action of the God- dard Brothers, as well as the wisdom of their work people. This is the point raised by the work people—that the Lonsdale Com- pany is able to sell at fairly remunerative prices all the cloths which it can manufac- ture. As the reduction is based upon the allegation that the dulness of trade makes it necessary the truth of this proposition be- comes an essential element in the settlement of the trouble. Not even the Lons- dale Company, rich as it is, can be expected to keep its mills running ataloss merely for the purpose of giving good wages to its operatives, and the adjust- ment of the difficulty should be made en- tirely dependent upon this question. The matter, it strikes us, is one for arbitration, and if the Goddard Brothers, who, we doubt not, represent the fairness and liberality of the distinguished men whom they succeed, will offer their operatives a settlement by this plan, it is to be presumed the suggestion would be acceptable. The operatives in the employ of Brown & Ives have always been unusually intelligent, and the meeting held at Lonsdale on Saturday shows them to be exceedingly moderate and reasonable. Their position on this question entitles them to respectful consideration and just treatment, and both on account of the millowners generally and the operatives in the mills which cluster in the valleys of the Blackstone and on the line of the Provi- dence and Fishkill Railroad, it is impor- tant that the settlement should be upon a broader basis than either a successful strike or an overpowering reduction. If the present strike is not maintained other man- ufacturers are likely to follow tho example of the Lonsdale company, while its mainte- nance is equally perilous alike for millown- ers and operatives. The way to end it hap- pily for all concerned, and at the same time to fix a good precedent for the future, is to refer the whole matter to three or five com- petent and disinterested men, for this, at least in a case like the present, is the best way for ending a strike. Polo in Amer A fashionable game in England during the pleasant days of summer is polo. It is purely a manly, athletic game, and one that is both healthful and useful, as it improves the horsemanship of all who imdulye in the sport. We do not see why this interesting game is not introduced into this country, as our young men of means have as great relish for outdoor sports as those of any other na- tion, and certainly have the requisites to become as proficient in all kinds of athletic exercises as those of their cousins over the | sea. There is no doubt that if the game of polo was introduced and practised by our | young gentlemen it could be played in o | short time just as well as itis now in Eng- | land by their best clubs. In the supply of | horses we have o decided advantage in a | breed naturally adapted for tho purpose. 'We mean the ‘Texas, or Indian a powerful, spry little gen- ' tleman, that-can run fast, stop quickly, and wheel on the crown of ao man’s election of officers to choose Senators, pro- | gold now it is certain that the Westerndemo- | hat. Hundreds of the ponies could be had ceeded yesterday throughout France, and | crats would not consent to its being applied | as soon as required, perfectly broken, and the Department of the Seine or Paris re- | to that use, because it would canse that very | at low figures. Polo clubs should be turns a majority who will select moderate | contraction of the currency which they | organized in all the cities in the United republicans and a minority who will yote for radical Senators, This indicates the deprecate. As they would not consent to a gold reserve being used in that way if we States, in the same manner that they arein England. In another column we give the localizing of the most dangerous ele- | had it now, what ground is there for suppos- | rules of the Hurlingham Club, which will be tent in French politics through the | ing that they will abandon their hostility ata | a guide to go by. Should the game of polo scrulin Carrondissement, aud while the same future period? Mr. Payne's bill is a clamsy | be introduced by an organization of gentle- law will probably give a few seats to the le- trick for seeuring the unmeaning homage of | men in this city, we are satisfied it would gitimist fossils and s good many to monarch- the Western democrats to hard money in a dis- | not be long before we would hear of inter- is.s of the Orleanist stripe, it will leave the | tant future by a guarantee that the currency ' national games being played between the reat majority to those in healthy sympathy #01 the conservative Republic. A few days rst elapse before the full result is known, + | the returns will be watched with the should not be contracted until after the next two Presidential elections. The author of | the bill takes pains tg prove to them how ht- | tle a Congressional promise on this subject | New York Club and the Hurlingham Club of | England. There are grounds within the en- | closure of Jerome Park that no doubt could | be used for the purpose, and games could lis liest anxiety by those interested in the | is worth by his proposed repudiation of the | be played for the amusement of the people L. ppiness of s0 great a fi ctor in the world’s bivilization as France, act of last winter, Mr, Morrison’s bill, which isa sort of re- on the off days of the races as well as at other times during the fair days of summer, It is undeniable | tennial. We print in other columns a very able let- / ter from Hon. John Jay, late American Min- ister at Vienna, and ask for it the attentive perusal of all who take an interest in the Centennial Exposition and all who are in any way connected with its management, especially the government. We apprehend that the prevailing notions as to the proper aims of the Exposition are crude and con- | fased. Perhaps no other gentleman in the United States is so well qualified by intelli- gence and opportunities for communicating clear information and giving sound advice on this subject as Mr, Jay. The last great Universal Exposition—that of Vienna—was constantly under his observation during all the stages of its preparation and throughout the period while it was open. He was on such terms of intercourse with its leading directors as gave him every facility for acquiring information and listening to intelligent criticism, and the lively interest he took in what was for two or three years the leading topic in Vienna led him to im- prove his opportunities. If anybody in this country is entitled to be heard and heeded on such a subject it is our late Minister to the Court of Austria. He knows the points of excellence, the sources of danger and the causes of failure. His timely letter is full of instructive suggestions and needed cautions, to which we invite the favorable notice of Congress. It is impossible to give such a summary of Mr. Jay’s letter as would dispense with a full perusal. We will merely glance at one or two of its prominent points. The one which best deserves consideration is that which relates to a series of International Congresses to be held in connection with the Exposition, comprising all the leading de- partments of practical inquiry, such as education, international patent right, inter- national copyright, agriculture, forestry, vines and wines, fish culture, medicine and surgery, engineering, architecture, mining, photography, telegraphy, meteorology, pre- historic remains—everything, in short, to which able bodies of specialists and savants are directing their researches in this inquir- ing age. Nothing would so much tend to raise the Exposition above a mere show and elevate it to the rank of a great source of intellectual illumination, making it, in the adequate language quoted by Mr. Jay from Prince Albert, ‘a proof and living picture of the height of civilization and the develop- ment of mankind.” Mr. Jay goes into this great branch of the subject with a convincing statement of reasons. Another of Mr. Jay's suggestions, of which he reserves the full development for another letter, is the fitness of inviting the crowned heads of Europe, as was done at Vienna. It strikes us, in the present aspect of this pro- posal, that it is beset with an insurmountable practical difficulty in the obstacles which exist to our receiving such high personages with a hospitality suited to their rank. We shall be glad to hear from Mr. Jay further on this point, for if we could secure their attendance it would add to the splendor of the occasion, but rather, as we incline to think, in the way of show than of instruc- tion. ‘There is another of Mr. Jay's suggestions of whose value there can be no doubt what- ever. We refer to his strongly put advice as to the kind of men that should be brought to the front as representing the culture and respectability of our people. Our disgrace- ful experience at Vienna ought to teach us a lesson on this head which it would be perilous and shameful to neglect. We press this part of the letter upon the earnest | attention of the government. Disasters and a Maritime Tribunal. The last few months have been unusually prolific in marine disasters, especially in the dangerous waters on the English coast. In almost every case carelessness or cruelty has been the cause of the disaster, and the mer- chant service is at last in a condition which can only be described by that verbal atrocity, “demoralized.” No example more clearly Marine illustrates this point than the double trouble on the schooner Jefferson Borden. While two mutineers of the previous crew are awaiting trial in Boston the schooner arrives out on her next voyage after a long and ter- rible passage. The new crew are outspoken in denunciation of the cruelties of the cap- tain, and even aver that the mutiny was the result of his arbitrary acts. This in itself would be sufficient to call general attention to the conduct of the masters of vessels while at sea, but simultaneously with these reports the cable has almost daily been bringing us stories of a similar kind. ~ In the inquiry into the case of the British bark island Belle it has been shown that vessels often put to sea with both a nominal and a real captain, while the American ship Cara- van shipped a drunken crew, which became insubordinate almost as soon as the vessel sailed. The probable loss of the Harvest Queen by coming into collision with the steamer Adriatic—a case in regard to which the whole truth is yet to be learned—is an- other case in point, and one that calls for thorough inquiry. If there was nothing to conceal in the matter the delay of Captain Jennings in reporting the accident at least needs explanation, while, even with a satis- factory explanation, his conduct will be gen- erally accepted as evidence of want of dis- cipline and disregard of responsibility at sea, It will thus be seen that the demorali- zation affects every branch of the merchant service, and as there is no competent tribu- nal under the law of nations to deal vigor- ously with these abuses we can scarcely hope for their correction. Evidently the sugges- tion of the German government for an inter- national conference on this subject ought to be acted on at once, and out of it should come a tribunal with concurrent authority in all maritime countries, This is the only way by which marine disasters can be thor- oughly investigated and offences at sea ade- quately punished. The unity of commer- cial relations, which is the result of the ap- plication of steam to ocean navigation, has made a common tribunal necessary, and the growth in the science of government, as well asthe good understanding which generally exists between the great Powers, not only renders such a scheme desirable but practi- | cable | Rewing—Where the Blame Lies, The cause of amateur rowing in America, indeed of rowing itself, never received a severer blow than that struck by the two best known rowing colleges when they voted recently to withdraw from the association. To be sure, they will continue contending with each other, but they have left a contest to which they were admirably suited and chosen one as ill-fitted to them as they are new toit. For rowing in eights there are two essentials, one of which ordinarily does not exist in our universities, and for the other there is no call or need. The first is men heavy enough to carry a coxswain over not merely three miles, the uniform course in our college racing, but over four. The record taken for many years together shows that the English university oarsmen outweigh ours by an average of ten pounds aman and that the heavier crews win. While we have individu- als who are large enough for this work it will almost certainly prove too wearing on our crews as theyrun. The other innova- tion—coxswains—is a necessity on a narrow, crooked stream like those in England, but on our broad waters is a worse than useless encumbrance, forcing men when tired out to continue carrying weight, a hundred pounds or more, beside theirown. But the greater harm done lies not in this misstep, but in making it so easy for several of the other col- leges to leave the association that its disso- lution after the next race is altogether too probable, If it comes whatever smaller gatherings may result in the future will lack the spur to first class work now existing, and the time, instead of improving, will doubtless materially retrograde, thus mak- ing our student oarsmen no longer the really dangerous foo the best of them now are. The blame will then justly belong to the first deserters from the association—Yale and Harvard. The Use and Abuse of Slang. The principal definition found in Web- ster’s Dictionary of the word ‘‘slang” is ‘low, vulgar, unauthorized language.” Dr. John- son merely defines it as the preterit of the verb “‘sling,” which has, perhaps, an occult, humorous suggestion of its own. Probably in the great lexicographer's time slang had not pervaded all classes of society to the ex- tent that it now prevails, Even then, though, | it was the language of street humor, as it was in the days of Aristophanes, Plautus or Mar- tial, and in the present phase of American society it has become a recognized force in argument or description. Always pithy and amusing, its use has introduced words and phrases among us which, from being great favorites, have become honsehold words. Many of these words or phrases are prob- ably only serving their apprenticeship, and will eventually become an active strength in our language, just as many old English words that once held a most respectable po- sition in society have fallen into disrepute and sunk to the uses of slang. * The powerful hold that slang has taken upon the familiar language of our daily intercourse may be traced to a sort of com- mercial brevity—the result of mercantile training and quick apprehension—which house or workshop; and even the college | and the studio have their technical slang | terms, the use of which is known as ‘talking shop.” The discovery has also ‘been made | that the introduction of a slang phrase in | vogue on the stage is the surest way to | laughter and applause. The cant or patter of thieves and rogues is not to be con- founded with these terse and grotesque additions to our language, although it has arrived at the dignity of a dictionary and many learned treatises have been written upon its derivations. In England a certain form of slang de- rived from the barrack or the hunting field is,very popular, and in a recent English novel the expression ‘too beastly par- ticular,” shows its diffusion in light litera- ture; but in this country the language bristles with the most formidable obstacles to its acquirement by any foreigner who arrives here for that purpose. Imagine him in some casual difficulty hearing the threat to “bust his crust;” his dictionary would teach him to consider himself a sort of human pie. At the club he is told thata certain merchant or broker has ‘gone up,” and his wondering mind dwells upon Enoch and celestial translation; but what idea is conveyed to his imagination when he hears the altitude of his goose? atgnes: PE we and renders it a constant colloquial gaiést; but there are two condi- tions in which it is unpardonable: either its application in literature, even in the daily news column or the lightest magazine article, or, worse still, by the lips of the fair sex, who do not always stick at a trifle of the same sort to enforce an argument or illus- trate an epigram. It is a deformity in that intercourse which should gild and adorn our lives. There is one good thing, however, that slang has done; it seems to have taken the place of worse coarseness and more objec- tionable vulgarity that deformed both con- versation and literature a century ago, and the recognition nowadays is universal that Immodest words admit of no defence, For a want of decency is want of sense. Ma. Bovercavia's Arrzat on behalf of the imprisoned Fenians comes to us from our London correspondent to-day with a few accompanying words from the gifted drama- tist, which certainly place his effort in a dif- | ferent light from that in which it would at first blush be judged. His letter, with these side lights, may be viewed as an earnest production, and the comparison he makes between the seceding Union officers and the deserting English soldiers who took up the Fenian flag appears welltaken. Mr. | Boucicanlt has thought it necessary to with- | draw his play, 80 as to remove all suspicion of a sordid interest in the sufferings of the prisoners he appeals for, and in this age of money-grabbing his relinquishment of immediate profits makes a fair test of his sincerity. But the question has its merits outside of his letter, and, whatever English | policy may dictate on the matter, the larger view of humanity will sustain him who produces a special slang of the factory, ware- | the sum of a man’s happiness measured by | The brisk sprightliness of slang sometimes | terness of the Suturday Review cannot put Mr. Boucicault on the wrong side, and this must be his present consolation and that of - tens of thousands who sympathize with im. A Spri ide Sabbath in Winter. ‘The beautiful weather yesterday left pro fessing Christians no excuse for remaining from church. The principal promenades ov the city were thronged by the devout, and their light attire and cheery bearing made the city look as if it had felt that premature springtide impulse which, we learn, has brought forth buds upon the fruit trees down South and beguiled some inexperienced birds there into building their nests. Comfortable temperature is a great aid to worship, and the multitudes opened their hearts as the skies were opened to the warm rays of the sun. A great many of the sermons had been prepared under the influ- ence of the cold weather of Thursday and Friday, and, therefore, had a compensating warmth, so that the worshippers seized their salient points readily without a preliminary thawing out. Thus, in the Rev. Mr. Hep- worth’s sermon on the power of Jesus’ blood, we find the following warm passage :— We try to get away from these burdens, but God comes along and takes us by force and puts us into the furnace. Your chila dead, not hot enough; your mouey gone, not hot enough yet; thea He takes us aud puts us into the furnace seven times heated, with- out mouey and without children, and leaves us alone like ascarred tree, and then, perhaps, we learn the lesson and may hear the angels saying, ‘What shail man give in exchange for his soul?” The vast agglomeration of brickwork, masonry and humanity which we call New York is ever a fruitful theme for the preacher, as it would be for the novelist if we had one of the power and breadth of Dickens, Its miseries and its splendors move side by side and even mingle in a way to illustrate the greatest lessons of life at every step. No sub- ject can be more touching than that of ‘City Missions,” particularly when the work includes the saving of the body aa well as the saving of the soul. The sermon by the Rey. Morgan Dix at Trinity church yesterday dealt with this, and in vindicating our city from the bad name with which it ia by the thoughtless often exclusively associ- ; ated, and pointing out its splendid efforts ou the side of virtue in its churches, schools, art homes, bethels, missions and charitable institutions, he did much to encourage. that stretching of the hand to the lowly and the fallen which is so much to be desired. Mr. Fulton, amid a blaze of scenic acces- sories, preached a patriotic centennial ser- mon, and enforced the idea that just now the nation is fronting new responsibilities, among which is the problem of assimilating our foreign population to American institu- tions. Rev. David Gregg fiercely defended the Bible in the public schools, and Rev. J. Hyatt Smith hotly proclaimed that Popery must be checked. Mr. Beecher dwelt on the school of Christ, and Father Preston, at St. Ann’s, denounced the sensuality of modern amusements, which lead man to im- | purity and perdition. Tue Drasorscan Conrrivance by which Thomassen hoped to have sent the Mosel with all on board to the bottom of the sea has now been fully disclosed, and it seems that the very care he em- | ployed in devising it became the in- strument of his own struction and the frustration of his plan. Elsewhere we publish full details of the unravelling of the hideous plot, and also a report of the indig- nation meeting of the American colony at Berlin to protest against the unjust asper- sions upon America in connection with the crime of Thomassen by a portion of the Ger- man press. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Moltke snus. Babcock’s trial begins January 3L Corn is burned for fuel in Nebraska, Sherman thinks Belknap helps Boynton. General Kilpatrick lives near Morristown, N. J. A Boston paper says that Bret Harte ‘commenced life as a curid.”” Roberts Brothers will publish Swinburne’s ‘“Krech- theus”’ in this country. Mrs, Secretary Fish wears peacock green silk, flounced with black Brussels lace. “A Reading, Pa., girl bas knit a pair of stockings | from her own hair.”—£zchange. Isn't that a preity thin yarn? A lady writes to the Heratp asking a recipe for cup cake. Well, take a cup of water, a couple of cloves | and—sait to taste. ? Jorsey farmers, afraid of burglars, are about to use the dinner horn as a means of summoning aid. What isadinner horn? Applejack? » Among the signs of the times in the Westis plentiful advertising of business colleges, with printed specimens of penmanship fit to awaken the enthusiasm of the country boy. Courier-Journal:—‘Why," asks an exchange, ‘do they bury a Japanese with his head downward when ho dies?” We really don’t kuow, untess it is vecauge they | think that’s the only proper time to do tt, | Hon, John Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, having | been spoken of for United States Senator from Ala- | bama, the Memphis Appeal speaks of him as the Ala- bama Warwick who cannot elect himself, | Senator Sargent, while at home in California, pub- | licly said that he personally knew that General Grant | dia not expect to have a third term, Will the Senator | explain more fully why he mado that statement ? | Frances Power Cobbe says that “a goose has perhaps | } \ | | i | | | the keenest appreciation of humor of any animal.” True; the Baltimore News editor steals the Hera.> “personals,” Aud ther chance for repartee, since this column announced that the i¢ian Jaell is coming to America provincial papers have been pun. ning upoa his name, as if it were pronounced jail, His name is pronounced “ya-ell,” and has no reference to Sing Sing. Judge Doolittle, of Wisconsia, thinks that General Sherman will be the next Republican candidate for | President, and that the power which proposes to nom- | {nate him would recreate the office of General of the Army and place Grant in it for life. Don Cameron, Harry White (to whom Grant wrote ‘ his third term letter) and several other Pennsylvania | republicans are in Washington tn conference with | Grant, and are supposed to be trying to get a Pennsyl | yania delegation for Conkling. Speaking of failares of savings banks the Bostos Advertiser says that since the control of the bank taken wholly out of the hands of those who are alone directly interested in the bank, it is the duty of the State to throw all possible safeguards around these in- stitations. The Utica Observer (ex-Governor Seymour's organ) | says;— The State of New York will send a delegation pledged to Conkling Ohio will be for Conkling as against Blaine, and where Ubio leads the West will probably foilow. It realty begins to look as if Conkling was the coming man." Ata recent ludignation mecting Judge Mackay, him. self one of the most prominent republicans in South | Carolina, but to the manner born, mado a speech im | which he stated that Patterson, within the last ten days, had openly stated to @ squad of black legislat- ors:—“‘Are you going to let Chamberlain frighten you off with his cry of reform and economy? Why, gen- temen, there are five years of good stealing ta South ‘| appeals for mercy to those who have already | Carolina yet,”