The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1876, Page 8

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Government bonds were steady, and invest- ment securities, more than usually, became B part of the speculative situation. Ovr Berum Spxctat points to a state of good feeling between Germany and America which we are glad to note. Wrxstow, the saintly forger, has saved a food deal of trouble about solving knotty points of international law by going td Lon- don, where, it is safe to say, he will be ar- yested and held for return to this country to Btand trial for his misdeeds, “A Want or Franxness” is the English Board of Trade’s reproof to Captain Jen- mings, of the Adriatic, which steamer ran lown the American ship Harvest Queen. Ve cannot see that it is anything for the White Star line to be joyful over. Vesuvius seems to hold off its eruptive erformance, and is at present in the full winter fashion with an ermine mantle of now wrapped round it, as though afraid of psore throat. The Americans in Naples are, pevertheless, preparing to celebrate Washing- Ron's Birthday. Tur Orxn Lamp in THe Mines has again pent a number of coal miners to their doom. The fatal occurrence yesterday at the Exeter mine, in West Pittston, although far short in deadly consequences of similar recent catastrophes in England and Belgium, re- sulted, like them, from the carelessness of the individual who was the first to suffer for Bhe folly against which warning seems use- Jess and precautions vain. Ovr Roman Sreciat Desparton, in addition to the latest news from the Vatican, brings ms some information respecting the war in Herzegovina, which does not promise a speedy or peaceful end to the troubles there. jit means that once the dogs of war have been Pet slip all the little principalities will give Bhem food till they fatten and drag in the ter Powers to have their share of the e-picking. Tar Covrrix Inrnicurns against Prince Bismarck will not feel gratified at the blunt wray he alluded to them in his late speech before the Reichstag. The Imperial Chan- wellor possesses that rare power of fighting wpenly or secretly, as it pleases himself, and mever hesitating to drag his secret enemies ito the light of day and placing them on the record. His present attitude toward Count yArnim, of assenting to the latter's pardon avhen the law has degraded him, is charac- beristic of Bismarck’s pure materialism. Tue Prestpenr’s Testimony in the Bab- rock case will undoubtedly be of some ser- wice to that gentleman. It is, however, only Bair to state that what the President has stated with reference to Babcock has all een anticipated. The principal novelty appears to lie in President Grant's assign- mentofan unsuspected cause for revoking the celebrated order transferring the super- visors. This reason is that he did it to lead the ring officials into a trap which would make their future detection all the easier. We. are ® good deal surprised at this, ‘ps, even at this late date, the action is one to explain satisfactorily. We must re- our readers to our special despatches for fall account of the remarkable scene over the Chief Justice presided, as he at an impeachment trial . NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBBUARY 13, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. | Passenger TraMic and the Horse Car Companies, No abatement of a nuisance, no improve- ment of any sort, and more particularly no interests of the people, was ever secured with- out a conflict with the persons who have vested rights in the abuses assailed. It does not surprise us, therefore, that our demand for fair, decent and reasonable treatment of the people by the horse car companies should be met in various quarters with statements, put forth more or less openly by the compa- nies, which treat the demand as ridiculous or outrageous, or as one compliance with which would result in the ruin of those cor- porations. In the attempt to laugh to scorn the notion that a man can be carried several miles comfortably for five cents the compa- nies’ supporters are not happy; but it is a fact that may have some interest to the tired laborer on his way home, compelled to stand or hang, that the company regards his wish to have a comfortable seat as funny, as a notion fitted to excite the liveliest hilarity in the mind of the recipient of dividends. But the argument that this reform would bankrupt the companies is one that puts the case seriously on practical grounds, and is worthy of examination. It is based upon figures which are made to show that on a business of 166,475,961 passengers carried as at present the profit was only one-third of a cent on each passenger—that is, nearly seven per cent, Emphasis is laid on the small- ness of this profit. Capitalists who would like to pnt money in a safe place at six and two-thirds per cent are probably not very scarce just now; but your horse car man is evidently convinced that any return less than twenty per cent is at the verge of ca- lamity. From these statistics it is argued that any additional accommodation to the public would exhaust the one-third per cent oneach fare, and that thus the companies would make no money at all. Now the plain answer is that this argument is all based on “cooked” returns. No horse cat company as now managed makes out its figures for the information of the authorities or the public. They are made to deceive, to discourage com- petition, to prevent interference—in short, to be used in such emergencies as the pres- ent to make it appear that the companies just get on by the skin of their teeth, and that if the people are not satisfied with what they get for their five cents and demand more, why then they will simply not have the opportunity to spend their five cents, for the companies will discontinue and an un- grateful people will be forced to walk. Take the Third avenue line as an example of corporation that is only saved from bankruptcy by conducting its business in violation of all the implied pledges on which it obtained its franchise. If it puts dars enough on its line tocarry decently the passengers it now carries as if they were cattle it will be in the hands of a receiver in six months—so we are assured. It carries seventy passen- gers in one car at one time—systematically makes a miniature Black Hole of Calcutta out of every one of its vehicles—and manages thereby just to keep its owners out of the almshouse and pauper graves.. But if a hundred thousand dollars is wanted at Al- bany to prevent any legislation inimical to the interests of this company that sum can be squeezed once or twice or even three times in a winter out of the one-third of a cent profit made on each passenger. And if a million or even two could prevent the con- struction of a rapid transit line fitted to ac- commodate the public on the east side this company would manage to put the money wherever it was wanted for sucha purpose. All that we demand in the interest of the people is that this and similar lines shall spend in the accommodation of their passengers all that they are ready to spend in order to de- prive other people of the opportunity to ac- commodate the same passengers. If, for instance, the Third avenue line would pur- chase vehicles with what it sends to Albany and lay out in other equipments all that it is ready to spend to defeat the rapid transit project the people who are compelled to use it as it is would then be able to ride with satisfaction and comfort, if not with pleasure, Traffic by the west side lines is already greatly relieved by the extension of the Ele- vated Rapid Transit Road, so that the Third avenue is now the one flagrant violator of public convenience, and we do not see why legislation might not be directly applied to remedy the abuses. It would be a good ad- dition to Mr. Killian’s bill if a clause pro- vided that on or before a certain date this company should put on its line double the number of vehicles now in use ; that in case of failure it should forfeit its charter, and that the franchise should be sold to the highest bidder, who should take the prop- erty at an appraised value. People would then see by the price the company would be willing to pay for the repurchase of its fran- chise or at what expense it would be anxious to retain it just how much sincerity there is iff the plea of the inability of the business to support the expenses incident to conducting it legitimately. All the poverty'plea amounts to this:—Horse car companies with good traffic can and do pay interest and dividends on a nominal debt and capital—on a sum five times as great as was ever invested in them. It was lately shown in court in a case where the shares were about a million dollars, and the bonded debt nearly the same, that the shares were all fictitious and the bonds partly so, and yet that the road honestly administered could an interest on all the debt and a dividend on all the shares. In other words, a busi- ness in which there was invested the sum of $300,000 could pay o fair return on $2,000,000. Now the return thus spread over the fictitious capital, if concentrated on the sum that is the real capital, would be about forty-two percent. This is an indica. tion of the way in which the administrators of these corporations cover their game, Put- ting their statements of passengers carried at the lowest they dare in view of the possi- bilitios of inquiry they are forced to show a fair return on their nominal capital, and if this return were computed on their real capital—on money actually invested—it would startle the public. By the report of the Third avenue line the cost of the road is put down at $3,500,000, This includea, construction and equipment and real estate. It did not cost to build and Leanin tho Jina mara tham $750.00; but | Jast mament by altamations of hope counting real, estate, the whole cost may be | $1,500,000—say $2,000,000 less than the re- | turn. It pays a dividend of ten per cent on its shares, $2,000,000, and seven per cent in- reform of any administration made in the | terest on a debt of $2,000,000—say an average | of eight and a half per cent on $4,000,000— which on the real cost would be twenty per cent. From passengers the receipts are put down at $1,512,396, and they are not one cent less than $7,000,000, So much for the serious side of this sub- ject presented by ‘‘cooked” accounts. As for the argument of the World, that there are persons who will not be deprived of the right to hang on by a strap—an argument started in a humorous vein by the Sun—it may be that there are such people, that there are two or three hundred or even a thousand of such “average New Yorkers” as the World describes, possessed with the insane impatience that cannot endure even a min- ute’s delay. But have the hundred thousand persons who ride every day on the Third avenue road no rights but such as may be put aside to humor these very impatient per- sons? But, as we have said hitherto, the impatient men may be accommodated also; for with an improved administration cars that are now two or three blocks apart would only be separated by half that distance. Moreover, the capacity of the cars could be increased. As it is a car constructed to seat twenty-two carries seventy; but with the crowding prevented and the seats differently disposed it might well carry thirty-five, and move at a higher rate of speed. With this change only double the number of cars would be necessary on a line like the Third avenue, and the company could afford to carry passengers at three cents each for two hours in the morning and two at night. With laws made to secure these points and with penalties for violation given to Mr. Bergh’s society violations would not be very numerous. If it shall prove upon the in- quiry ordered by the Aldermen that*there is some authority in the city government to supervise the operations of the companies it may yet happen that between the police, Mr. Bergh and the Legislature the people of this city will yet be able to get from place to place in a decent vehicle at a proper price. Our London Cable Letter, It must have been a pretty heavy fog which visited London on Friday, or our London correspondent would never have deemed it necessary to write about it, for the average visitor there finds it pretty hard to say when the British metropolis is withoutone. Hence, while admitting that the obscurity was very great on Friday, we warn our readers to take with reservation the statement that there was a flood of bright sunshine in London yesterday. This will be the more evident when we say that the oldest inhabitant of Cockneydom can only distinguish the orb of day from the gilt ball on St. Paul's Cathedral by the latter having @ cross on top. Certain it is that Lord Byron's ghastly poem on darkness had its onigin in a London fog, as the opening line will attest that it ‘‘was not all a dream.” We are moved in reading this account of the fog to congratulate Her Majesty Queen Vic- toria that Parliament had been opened three days before the fog came.’ Yet what a nar- row escape! Only think of the police stopping the royal cavalcade in mistake for Kenealy's ragged Magna Chartists, clubbing the heads off the royal flunkies, banging the heralds with their trumpets and then escorting the Tichborne cham- pion and his followers to the throne in the House of Lords. Of course when Kenealy, imagining he had effected a blood- less revolution by a miraculous interposition of Providence, commenced his speech as- suming the royal crown, the peers would find out the mistake. At the words, “I, King Kenealy the First, as the initial act of my reign, hereby strike the fetters off Sir Roger Charles Tivhborne, whom I create Lord Chancellor,” a free fight would begin between the newly created knights of White- chapel, Seven Dials and Ratcliffe Highway, backed by their retainers and the lords spiritual and temporal, from which the lat- ter would undoubtedly emerge with more black eyes and bloody noses than were ever in the peerage since the days of William the Conqueror. We cannot trust our feelings to carry the picture further, but it all and more may happen some foggy day. The English, it may be assumed, are happy in their foreign policy, and Disraeli’s brilliant picture of a chain of fortresses from London to Bombay is one likely to catch the public eye and coax the millions sterling from the popular pocket with a joy seldom known to England in paying away the golden effigy of their sovereign. The regret for Reverdy Johnson in England we can readily appreciate, for his genial presence was widely known there. Minister Schenck appears to have attracted a strong party in England to a belief in his innocence of all wrong in the Little Emma swindle. We can only hope that he may achieve the difficult task of showing a clean hand after his connection with that wretched business, and not, as his enemies would assert, a ‘‘fall hand,” with a sarcastic allusion to Mr. Schenck’s favorite game at cards. Tax Annest or Gronos ©. Smrrn in this city yesterday brings to the surface a villa- nous scheme for the robbery of confiding in- surance policy holders. By creating a bank into which the money taken from the policy holders of the now defunct State Insurance Company of Chicago was lodged the officials were, it is alleged, able to convey all the col- lected funds to their own purposes. The bank is defunct also. Tax Governor has signed a bill extending the time for the Tubular Transit Company to complete their tunnel to Staten Island. If charters would relieve New York of its rapid transit difficulties we should not be fighting the horse car companies for a seat for every passenger who pays them a fare, Donan’s struggle to escape the gallows is still kept up, the prisoner's counsel asking the District Attorney's assistance to hurry the case before the Court of Appeals without the benefit of a stay of proceedings. It is hard to blame the counsel for taking every possible chance to serve his client, but under the present arrangement the wretched man may go to the gibbet tortured to the despair, which are cortainly no fitting pre- Inde to a legal execution. There should be a definite limit between the period of cessa- tion of all hope and the taking of a man’s life by the law. “The Revival of Religion”—Moody and Sankey. A contemporary presents a question in connection with the revival movement of Moody and Sankey that is not without in- terest. It asks whether the marvellous results that have been achieved by the evan- gelists, so far as crowds and manifestations | of emotion are concerned, leave any per- manent result in the moral culture of the people. .Do those who, under the nervous preaching of Moody and the sweet singing of Sankey, feel that they‘are called by the Holy Spirit to lead a better life, go out into the world strengthened for its duties and temptations? Do they become better Christians, better citizens, better fitted for daily cares and struggles? Do they have a higher sense of what they owe to the State and to one another? Does the singing of a hymn or the application of the Holy Scrip- tures bring about suddenly that elevation and reformation of the soul necessary to the development of our moral nature? Is re- ligion a sudden influence that comes like a stroke of lightning, or is it what the poets tell us about falling in love at sight? One newspaper claims to have information to the effect that the revival in Philadelphia has not been lasting; that there are no evidences of a general reformation in morals. But, on the other hand, we find in the same journal @ news paragraph to the effect that six or seven thousand of those who had been con- verted in Glasgow by the revivalists have remained true to the faith. We have never believed that men fall into religion at the first blush; that the true de- velopment of a moral life comes in an hour; that a soul can really be saved by a song or a sermon. So many conditions enter into such a life that it must come, like all other growths, by development. This is at the basis of our whole Christian life, of all that is taught by Protestant and Catholic. The influences of Moody and Sankey are apt to be ephemeral. A hearer may receive a noble influence which leads to better thoughts and a purer life, One who has lived for years in the contemplation of wholly worldly things, who has given to the devil and his works the time and the energy that would have made him a much better citizen, may have sud- denly called to his mind the memories of a childhood of faith, of a mother's prayers, awakening in his mind all the latent re- ligious feeling, for there are tens of thou- sands with a deep and truly reverent nature whose lives are in themselves a religion and who never go within a church. These are among those who may be reached by the teaching of the evangelists. It is in that direction, if at all, the true extent of the work will be done. More than all, there are many who may re- ceive from the preaching of the evangelists what the Scriptures call the word of quick- ening—the lighting of the torch which may, if duly nursed, burn into the flame. If the depths of society can be stirred up;if the poor and the forlorn, the wretched and the sinfal cap only be turned from intemperance and lust and hypocrisy and false pretence; if they can be taught the purer blessings of a tranquil, honest life, even when compared with all the pomp and success of the world, then we shall feel the true spirit of a revival. Certainly the evangelists are men who believe in their work. We are told they live by faith in deed as well as in word; that neither Moody nor Sankey accept a penny for their labors; that they have no interest in the sale of the books and pictures which have had such an enormous circulation. They do not raise collections. They have no means. They trust to the Lord for their daily bread, and we are told that it always comes—sometimes in one form and some- times in another—but never by begging or borrowing or by direct payments or by any business interest in any enterprise. They trust in the Lord who fed the ravens. They make no plans ahead. They go from place to place as they are ‘‘called by the Holy Spirit,” and take no care for the future. Altogether, the whole movement is one of the most extraordinary in modern times, and worthy of interest and study. As to the re sults, the fature must toll, Oar Paris Cable Letter. The French Senatorial elections, as wo know, did not justify Minister Buffet’s joy in anticipation of them. His count of the conservative chickens, while the thirty-six thousand Deputies were sitting on the eggs, turned out to be sadly astray, out-and-out ‘republicans and half-breed republican chicks chipping their way into the political world at a gate which has doubtless astonished him, Gambetta, who was also joyful before the event, is now dowbly so, and, as we see, is personifying the Gallic cock in the vigor- ous way he is crowing to enthusiastic crowds throughout the country, The Bonapartists, it seems, find reason for rejoicing in the re- moval of M. Renault from the Prefecture of Police, but that, except as an indication that Buffet, in his desperation, prefers candi- dates from the party of Sedan to those from the party of the ex-Dictator, will bring small comfort to Bonapartism in Paris, A re- hearsal of Dumas’ play, ‘‘L’Etrangere,” has been witnessed by our correspondent, and while it girds at foreigners by making Ameri- dans personify the vices of political life, it is declared a masterpiece of art. If this is we can only regret that so brilliant a ter has chosen such meretricious means of playing his talents. Heaven knows that American political life is not a summing up of all the virtues, but France is probably so blisé of seeing her own political mis- epants crucified before the footlights she may demand a _ change dramatis persone to get back her appe- tip for tho dramatization of her more y-spiced national depravities, as George is said to have turned to pig’s head and in order to whet the royal gusto State banquet. By the side of this we of a piece entitled the ‘Chevaliers of Fatherland,” in which honest old Abe In and Stonewall Jackson are to be as types of heroism and devo- This by way of compensation. Jack is still keeping the ladies of the gay in winter garments, and we can com- miserate their anxiety for fine weather and spring modes. The moral of the seventy-five rejected American applications for invite tions to the President's second ball we could only point by knowing why presumption is such an unconscious quality. Wanted—A Rhyme for Conkling. Some years ago there was great excitement among the poets. to be a word impossible to rhyme with, and as nothing better than ‘trim knee” could be discovered the contest soon came to an end. Soon afterward an aged poet, who had spent half his life in search of a rhyme to ‘‘Tim- buctoo,” bequeathed in his will a thousand pounds to any one who should find it. The most plausible attempt was as follows:— I wish I were a cassowary On the ptins of Timbuctoo, For then I would eat a missionary, ‘His legs and arms, and his hymn book, too. For these verses the Bank of England, by advice of its counsel, refused to pay the money, and the suit is in Chancery to this day. Now, similar excitement has been caused by the ambition of our poets to finda rhyme to Conkling, and we have been fa- vored with a great many efforts. If we have not offered a prize for the best rhyme it is because we have not felt at liberty to usurp a privilege which belongs to Mr. Conkling. It is his own name, and he will have the benefit of the rhyme, and he should have the credit of encouraging the poets. Besides, the question is not so much as to which is the best rhyme as to which is the worst. For these reasons we decline the honor of giving the prize; but, as Mr. Conkling has not yet declined any honor that has been offered him, he will probably accept this. Here is a fine stanza. It might not take the first prize, but it would do for the sec- ond. It begins like a hymn: Now, office-holders raise your voice, And with harmonious conch sing The praise of King Ulysses’ choice, ‘The famous Roscoe Conkling. The harmonious conch is good, but possi- bly the following, from a Newark poet, is equally striking:— As Ab-Sin, the Chinaman, Does to his Gong cling, $6 to the third termer Sticks Roscoe Conkling. The sentiment of the preceding poem will be appreciated by Grant; but here is one which he may not like so well, as, in the dis- guise of poetry, it gives the Senator apposite political advice:— $ Take no heed what they say, Mr. Conkling, Of the chances against getting there. Roscoe! by right or wrong chag To your views on the President’s chair. Still another poet, who is rather obscure as to Jake, sends us this counsel to John:— Whatever Jake may do, I'd say let John cling ‘Till all is blue to our great Roscoe Conkling. Finally, a scientific poet is responsible for the following couplet, in which either satire is delicately concealed or truth deliberately declared :— In Darwin phrase, the boy {s but a monkling, But when the man is grown he is a Conkling. Critics may say that none of these rhymes are strictly accurate; that in one case the hard O is used in both words; that in others the hard G does not correspond with K; that John can hardly be pronounced John,” and that ‘‘monk” has not the same vowel sound as ‘‘conk.” But critics, as Taine says, who is himself a critic, are always men who have failed in the arts they criticise. Let them make better rhymes themselves. Besides, Mr. Conkling is a great man and his name is difficult to match. It is not like Smith or Jones or Brown, which rhyme to myth or bones or town. The hard- est part of the distinguished Senator’s name is the first syllable. If you could hit him on the ‘‘conk” all would be well. Perhaps the Hon. John Morrissey might try his hand and give us a poem on the subject. The splendid dreams in which the mind of the Senator is now lost should naturally dispose him to take a profound interest in this poetical tournament. Politics and poetry have much in common, and it would be hard for any candidate to excite enthu- siasm whose name would not fit into a cam- paign song. The easily sung refrain of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” gained Harri- son many a vote, Let our Senator encour- age the poets, who are already excited over the subject, and we may yet see Conkling accepted as a rhyme for President. Security to Life at the Hippodrome. The ocoupation of the building known as the Hippodrome by six or eight thousand people day and evening calls for the utmost care for the safety of human life while the services are in progress. We are glad to seo that our previons suggestions in regard to the insecurity of the building have been heeded, and especially that the dan- gerous doors, which might have prevented egress in case of a panic, have been replaced by others affording greater security. Our news article this morning shows that some other changes and improvements are neces- sary, and from the alacrity which has already been shown in acting upon the warn- ings of danger and providing against it we cannot doubt that everything will be done which it is possible todo to make the building safe in every emergency. Absolute safety is a thing im- possible in New York with our loose notions in regard to the construction of public build- ings. Most of our places gf public resort are built of inflammable material, and suffer- ing and death would be sure to follow a panic in almost any of our churches and theatres. The great point is to have the means of egress asample and as open as possible. In this respect we believe the Hippodrome is now reasonably secure if the doors are not barred during the services. Nothing must be left undone by the committee having the building in charge to render life secure during this Moody and Sankey revival, and we have faith that the utmost that is possible will be done to accomplish this end. Especially would wo wish to guard against any unnecessary alarm. The work in which these: 60 called, are engaged is only too likely to pro- voke opposition. Their meetings attract multitudes from the theatres and other places of public amusement, and interfere sadly with bier halles and such places of resort. It is but natural that a strong interest should wish this counter attraction removed, and endeavor to exaggerate any suggestion of danger to the detriment of Moody and San- key's work. With any such movement wo have no sympathy. All wo ask is the ut- most security to life and limb within the limits of the vast building where the meet- are held, andin pointing out dangara “Chimney” was declared | which actually exist we simply perform duty to the public, in the full belief that these dangers, whatever they are, will be ree tified as quickly as possible. The Conviction of Rubenstein. The trial of Pesach N. Rubenstein, charged with the murder of Sara Alexander, closed yesterday, resulting in the conviction of the accused after a deliberation of only one hous by the jury. "There can be no reasonable doubt that the verdict is a righteous one, The defence was a flimsy one, while the network of circumstances which the prosecu- tion wove about the prisoner left no escape from the conclusion that he was guilty of murder. Among these circumstances Ru- benstein’s remarkable dream was not the least important. Dreams are not made of such stuff that they point with unerring pre- cision to the disposition of the body after a murder. Rubenstein dreamed entirely too much to the purpose, especially when his dangerous dreaming is considered in con- junction with his presence at the scene of the murder about the time the crime was committed. Then there were the tell-tale boots, which, more than any- thing else, fixed the crime upon the accused. Upon them were found mud like the soil of East New York, a piece of shawl correspond- ing in texture to that worn by the murdered girl and a piece of corn husk, suggesting Bubenstein’s presence in the field where she met her death. Even this was not all, for there was blood on the boots, and they fitted the tracks in the corn field where the girl and her murderer must have trodden. A car conductor testified that Rubenstein and Miss Alexander journeyed together on the fatal day, and another witness swore to seeing him with the girl in the vicinity of the corn field. Rubenstein's knife, too, was found in acorn stack near the scene of the murder, Opposed to this network of circumstantial evidence, rendered still stronger by the strength of Rubenstein’s motive for the doed, was a weak attempt at proving an alibi. Had the man been innocent. there would have been no doubt as to his moyements on the day of the murder; but he would not even so much as try to account for his goinga and comings on that day. It is seldom cir- cumstantial evidence is so satisfactory, and the conviction of this man is a triumph of justice. Pulpit Topics To-Day. There are indications on every hand that the fields are already white unto the spirit- ual harvest, and to-day Mr. Jutten will issue a call for laborers to enter it and reap the ripened grain. This is the way to seek and save the lost and to finish the work which Christ has left Mr. Greene and others to do. And this work is not merely for a week ora month, but, as Mr. Leavell intimates, it is a life work, which must con- tinue from generation to generation even unto the end of the world. This, as Mr. Saunders believes, is the mission of the Gos- pel to save the lost ere they perish; and, asthe only means of accomplishing it, Mr. Hepworth invites us to enter into the Christian life through Christ, the only door, and partake of the benefits of God's covenant with us. But if we have not faith in the Gospel it will not be likely to be of any benefit to us. Dr. Samson will, therefore, demonstrate its authenticity, in- © spiration, collection and preservation, that our faith may be strengthened and our hopes quickened. And Dr. Ewer will ex- plain what true godliness comprises, The man who gains the world and loses his soul has made a bad exchange, So, at least, Mr. Lloyd believes and will teach. But while Jesus of Nazareth passeth by Mr. Phelps believes that the people ought to follow Him, and he will extend such an invitation to-day. Mr. McCarthy believes in striking where the devil is stropgest—namely, at the root; and he proposes to try his hand this evening and see what success will result from his efforts. A Syvopsts of the Board of Education's thirty-third annual report will be found else- where. The recommendations respecting future means of dealing with truant chil- dren—that is, those likely to grow up in gross © ignorance as well as poverty—deserve special stady. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The democrats lengthen legislation. Yosemite Valley was dug out by glaciers, Mra Treasurer New wears turquoise blue, Many ladies practise as physicians in Russia, Each Indian costs the government $2,000 a year, The temperance sentiment grows along the Pacifie coast. Pennsylvania rivers are being stocked with Califor. ala salmon. ‘The Chicago Tribume man is sick again with a rush of Tolling pivs to the head. One hundred and fifty-eight lesser planets are fool- ing around tn the heavens. Tennessee wants to introduce the ipecac plant. Par- son Brownlow is not enough. Senator Christiancy, at the age of sixty-four, married & Treasury clerk of nineteen. ‘The native Mexican polishes himself off with palm oil before polishing off a mutton chop. Walt Whitman is represented as being too poor to bring out his new book, “Two Rivulets."” In Spain neither the government nor the electors un- dorstand the rulvs of parliamentary warfare. In Norway thero ts a night three months long, and ‘vory. few people won't go home till morning. Melssonnier, the celebrated painter, has becn named President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paria, ‘There are about 3,000 Chinese boys in California, natives thereof, who, when of age, will be voters, The subscriptions of the bookselling trade for the first book of George Bliot’s now novel, “Danie! Deronda,” It will be several months before Miss Anna Dickin- fon will abandon the lyooum for the stocking and buskin. An Oswego man disappeared some years since and his little daughter sells popcorn on trains so as to ind her pop. The man who is always expecting New York news. papers to “go up’ has been called the Millerite of journalism. General Kilpatrick is now called the phantom horse. man, for lauding himself for battling in which ho did Bot engage. Mr, Bright bas'no sympathy with the commanistie theories which have been imported from the Continent into England. A Virginia editor predicts that everybody will awake two conturies hence. Here's @ chance for Charles Francis Adams. ‘The Kansas City Times doosn't like tho “p, i" writ. ing of the Hanstn. Butthe Times editor will read the “p. 1,” nevertheless, ; Dr. brncri of Montreal, says that you can’t cure Iunatics without brandy, and it is sui many lunatics wiint to be cured. ee Linsday, the marderer, was born on Priday, killed his victim on Friday, was arrested on Friday, was Pantanced on KOGA aad as execuhed on Frigat