The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1876, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youk Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF T YORK HERALD—N FLE T, PARIS OFFIC L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY AND DRAMA. at SP. M. GILMORE'S GARDEN, CONCERT, at 8 P.M. FIFTH AVENUE DAVID GARRICK, at 81". M VACK'S TH WALI THE MIGHTY DOLLAK. at 8 P.M. ence. TRE, Mr. and Mrs, Flor- BOWERY THEATRE, CUSTER, at 8 P. M SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, arsP.M. THEATRE. Tur i THEATRE. VARIETY, at 5 P. UNION SQUA IRATRE, TWO MEN OF SANDY Hak, at SP. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BOOTIDS THEATRE. BARDANAPALUS. at 8 P.M. ir. Bangs and Mrs, Agnes oot, WOOD'S M AIKEN COMBINATION, at 5 M. | i. Matines at2 P.M. | TRE. TRELSY, at 8 P.M. ~ MINSTRELS, RAG BURLESQUE, COMEI KELLY & LEO. ats P.M. CHATEAU MABILLE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. QUADRUPLE SHEET. “NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEP EMBER 3, 1876, ~ From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and clear or partly ciondy. | During the summer months the Herat will | Ue sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of teenty-sive cents per week, free of postage. Watt Srreer Yzsrrrpay.—Speculation was most active with the coal stocks, which suffered a further decline. The general market was heavy, and, with few exceptions, | lower. Gold opened at 109 7-8, declined to 109 3-4 and closed weak at 1095-8. Govern- ment bonds were steady. Railroad bonds were generally lower. Money was in abun- dant supply at 1 a 2 per cent on call. Don Cantos has left us, but in spite of the fears of the Spanish governinent he did not Jake an army with him. Grnerat Bancock must be a determined foe of a public zoological garden at Wash- ington or he would not suggest its establish- ment in his annual report as Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. Figurine iN Senvia was progressing ac- cording to the latest reports, but it remains to be seen whether both sides are again to gain the victory. Defeat for the Servians now means the final extinguishment of their hopes, and so desperation, if nothing else, ought to impel them to meet their foes courageously. Tur Sratve or L Trr, the gift of France to America, is to be inaugurated on Wednesday in Union square. This work of art will long stand, we trust, not only as a memorial of the services of Lafayette to the struggling colonies, but as a mark in the senternial of our independence of the good feeling of the two republics, to the establish- nent of which these services led. Aw Examisation of the schedule of the treight charges of the Pennsylvania Railroad will show that it costs nearly twice as much to ship goods to Western Pennsylvania as to points in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. This tact alone shows the utter recklessness of the freight war between the trunk lines ; but if the railroads only ruin themselves by this folly the “war” may as well go on. Govennor Henxpricks made his first speech since his nomination for the Vice Presi dency at Shelbyville, Ind., yesterday. It is mainly a review of the curses which repub- lican administrations have brought upon the country and a promise of blessings which are to flow from democratic rule. As a polit- ical harangue it is able and effective, but it | lacks the statesmanship the country had a | right to ¢ | from a source so eminent, Tuene N Was a Campa more dis- graceful than that of Servia against Turkey, unless it be the campaign of Turkey against Bervin. We have been told repeatedly that the subjects of Prince Milan were in the habit of wounding themselves to escape going into battle, and now we are informed that they shot their Russian officers for compelli t for their country, their race and their religion. The butcheries of the Turks are atrocious, but the abject cowardice of the Serviens is inexplicable, y them to fi Tue Weatusn.—The brisk after winds that olew from the northward and westward with @ maximum velocity of twenty-four miles an hour during yesterday indicated that the area of low pressure had passed us during the night before. Ashort and not very heavy shower of rain marked its presence, but this quickly gave place to the cooling winds that rushed toward the atmospheric depression. We will | now enjoy bright and bracing weather for a few days, but let us make the most of it, for | another area of low barometer has manifested | itself in Dakota and comes on apace. This will cause a return of the high temperature, though with a seasonable modification of the heat. The weather conditions prevailing at present in the United States are very | varied. In the northeast and the north- | west there are areas of low barometer and a high pressure extending all over the Mis- sissippi Valley from the lakes to the Gulf. Threatening weather, variable winds and rains, however, prevail in the southern por- tions of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and a storm centre is moving in the Atlantic | off the coast of Northern Floridu. ‘To-day | the weather in New York wiil be pleasantly ool and clear, witha moderate wind from the westward. The Saratoga Nomination. According to our despatches this morning, Governor Seymorr not only persists in his refusal to accept the nomination forced upon him by the Saratoga Convention, but he has written a letter to the Democratic State Cen- tral Committee formally declining it. Thus the denial, which the committee has been circulating, that the candidate had not de- clined, is proved to be only a part of the dis- | ingenuous transaction which led to the dis- grace and confusion of the democracy of the State. The position of the democrats may be, it is charitable to suppose, only the result of a blunder—a mere farcical muddle of the man- agers without any oblique intention behind it; but it may be—and we are inclined to be- lieve it is—the consequence not simply of a | blunder, but of the miscarriage of an intrigue. It does not present to the public mind the aspect of a mere mishap that honest men may deplore, and with the victims of which people spontaneously sympathize ; but, on the contrary, it is judged by common con- sent as a case of cunning that has over- reached itself and is ridiculous in the midst of its schemes, It presents that common | situation of the farces where the biter is bitten. The conduct of the Saratoga Convention toward Mr. Seymour is disgraceful, even if sincere and honest; while toward the party for which the Convention acted it is worse than disgraceful. On one hand is seen the admission that the party has but one man so well known for capacity and purity that his name is an encouragement in any cir- cumstances, and on the other is presented the fact that the Convention acts by agencies so coarse and so little able to comprehend the relations of a party to its candidate that its one great man fails to receive from those who are presumably his ardent admirers the simple politeness and consideration that are always due to a gentleman, great or sinall. How wonderful the change that in this Em- pire State the demoeratic party should have but one good man and no good manners ! ‘These persons who were appointed by the Convention to the delicate duty of waiting upon the candidate to ascertain if he would accept the nomination simply never went near him. They discovered a man named Spriggs who was going in that direction, and they mado him their messenger, He was to see the candidate and send a de- Spatch by wire as agreed upon. He sent the despatch and may have seen the candi- date ; but that point is open to doubt, inas- much as it is now declared that the Conven- tion was misinformed by him. But the point of interest here is that the committee appointed by the Convention—supposing al- ways that this committee acted honestly-- seemed to be profoundly indifferent to what Mr. Seymour's views might be as to the use of his name on the State ticket. They ap- pear to have fancied that his opinions were of no possible account in the case. Either that or else they impertinently as- sumed that standpoint from which small wits have jeered at Governor Seymour as “the great decliner who always accepts.” They acted on the notion, apparently, that this citizen, whom their own Convention thought the only man worthy its suffrages, was, in fact, an insincere trickster who acted with the patent cunning of Reynard, the fox, and constantly refused proffered gifts only that they might be thrust more certainly within his reach. If they believed he would accept an idea like this was evi- dently the basis of their confidence. They thought it was only necessary to insist and be tedious, and that Spriggs could do that as well as anybody and that the result was certain. Clearly the democracy, if not quite gone to the dogs, is far away in that direc- tion when this is the tone in which it deals with its most honored men. But if it were only a case of bad taste and bad manners perhaps the democracy might still get on. It isa great deal worse for a convention to assume that a party which casts over four hundred thousand votes in the State has but one man who can be safely opposed to Governor Morgan as a candidate for office. If the list of known and distin- guished democrats is so small, so poor, so inadequate to great occasions as this would imply, what security have the people that in supporting the democratic party they do not hand over their government to a coterie of pygmies and puppets? But it is not true that Governor Seymour is the only man the democracy has, and the act which seemed to do him the strange honor of pretending that he is did not originate in any good will toward him nor in any sincere intention to | magnify his good qualities, for cheats do not really admire an honest man. There is throughout the State no scarcity of distinguished men known as faithful demo- crats and as upright and capable men, who would fill the office of Governor as satisfac- torily as any man that ever held it. It is scarcely yet time to conclude that this party has lost the great principles and the vigorous impulses that secure the adhesion of strong and earnest men; but we should be forced to this conclusion if we accepted the notion that Mr. Seymour was the one necessary and in- evitable candidate of the oczasion. Indeed, this pretence of necessity was only contrived that a very popular name might be used to cover a discreditable intrigue. In the Convention there was no common senti- ment of consideration for the success of the party and the ticket—no spirit to do what was best for the common cause. It was, on the contrary, a scene of contention and ri- yalry between cliques. It was the misfor- tune of prominent candidates that they not considered as to the degree in which, respectively, they met the require- ments of an important political occasion, They were considered as Tilden candidates and anti-Tilden candidates, and so measured by a standard of personal antipathies their real merits were neglected. One candidate, whose really good qualities were cortainly none the worse because he was Governor Tilden’s preference, was perhaps unduly pressed on one side and unduly opposed on the other, and that he could not be nomi- nated was clear. This fact seems to have inspired the desperate ruse of stampeding the Convention into the nomination ot Gov- ernor Seymour ; for they who could not get their own candidate were thus sure to carry down the favorite candidates of their op- ponents, “There is a charm in the name of were Seymonr for every convention of democrats, and the disorganizers who were in sympathy with Governor Tilden’s plans availed them- selves of that charm to defeat a serious nom- ination. They threw in that name as the cunning racer threw the apples before the swift competitor to tempt her away from the geal. There was more than mere disorganization in their scheme, however, for it promised this advantage to themselves—that if they conld put their man in the second place he might in one of several contingencies attain the first place. It was, therefore, an attempt to use Mr. Seymour as a tool ; to utilize the well-earned credit of his name for the pur- pose of a desperate personal project that will destroy every man connected with it. And the failure to give the State Committee the usual authority to fill vacancies will, perhaps, turn oat to have been part of the scheme, which Mr. Seymour's firmness has so promptly exposed. Opening of the Public Schools, The opening of the public schools each year is an event as significant and important as the annual elections. Our citizens gen- erally take too little interest in the matter of the education of their children; but still our | common school system seems to be increas- | ing in usefulness and efficiency from year to year, and, from what we know of the teachors, we believe they are an intelligent and discreet body of men and women. Still parents will | do well to exercise something like a personal | oversight over the persons to whom the edu- cation of their children is committed, not | officiously or offensively, but by way of encouragement rather than correc- tion, The course of study is best left to those whose duty it is to pro- vide it for the schools. As our readers are doubtless aware, a new curriculum has been adopted for the present year, and we lay the whole course of study before them for the first time this morning. It will be seen that it is very elaborate, and in the main we be- lieve it is very good. Its principal defect is in the fact that it is procrustean in its applica- tion—a defect that isin some respects in- herent in the public school system. No al- lowance is made for the difference in the mental and physical aptitude of ‘pupils. The quick child and the dull one are made to travel at the same pace. Ex- ercises in reading and spelling and counting are all very well, no doubt, but the drill must become exceedingly irksome to the child who wishes to get on and cannot because he is held back by the dullards. To mnke a course of study suitable to the needs of the schoolroom it must be flexible, and there must be flexibility in classitica- tion as well as in the curriculum. Our ob- jection to the American collegiate courses is mainly in the cast iron procrustean charac- ter of the system which most so-called col- leges pursue. Like the Attic highwayman, they make their victims, whether tall or short, fit the bed whose length their wisdom has ordained. This is what we now find our Board of Education doing, even with the little children. Dog- berry was nearer right than most people imagine when he said that reading and writing come by nature. Give a child books and papers and he will learn to read unless ho is very dull indeed; but drill such a child for months and years in vowel sounds and combinations of letters and figures and object lessons, as plain to his eyes as to his teacher's and often more won- derful to his imagination, and ten chances toone he will become disgusted with his schoolroom before he ought to be sent to it at all, Mr. Thomas Gradgrind evidently had a hand in the preparation of this elab- orate course of study, but it must be re- membered that Gradgrind seldom obtained results from his magnificent array of facts. We are not arraigning the splendid pro- gramme the Board of Education has adopted ; on the other hand, we rather like its appearance on paper; but then we should not like to see the teachers in our public schools adhering to it as if it was like a law of the Medes and Persians. Rotten Savings Banks. Two more savings banks in the hands of receivers. Pleasant news, is it not, for the poor depositors? The greater number of our savings banks, fortunately, are sound. But why were not all so? These banks are under the special control of the State Super- intendent of Banking. He holds his office in order that he may by his vigilant scrutiny of these banks protect the industrious poor from loss. The law gives him abundant powers to ascertain their condition at all times, and to make suro_ that the funds intrusted to them by poor working men and women are sacredly guarded. Yet five or six savings banks have suspended since last fall, and in some of them, it is now known, gross frauds were for a long time going on. Has the Superin- tendent of Banking no responsibility in this matter? He draws his pay; he has sworn to perform his duty; he neglects it, and the industrious poor lose their little savings through his cold carelessness. We have been waiting to hear from Gov- ernor Tilden on this subject. Ho is the Chief Executive of the State. The Bank Superintendent is his subordinate. The Governor is responsible that his subordi- nates do their duties faithfully. But the Governor is busy with politics. He does not seem to care about the poor depositors. At least there is no evidence in any act of his that he either knows or cares about their moneys. There is so much talk about re- form in these days that we wonder some of the reformers do not, for sweet consistency’s sake, look a little after the hard savings of the working men and women of New York and see to it that the savings banks are honestly conducted. Avtnoven Juper Gray, the President of the Saratoga Convention, had Mr. Seymour's declination of the nomination for Governor in his pocket when the Convention re- assembled on Thursday morning he did not find out that the nominee would not accept until he read it in the Henarp interview the j next day. It he had sent us that despatch for publication at the time he received it he great blunder would have been averted by Lthe New York democracy, The President as a Speaker. Itisa singular evidence of the judicious spirit of General Grant that he, who is in reality a fluent and even gossipy talker, should, afterso many years of public life, retain the reputation of being an uncom- monly taciturn man. The fact is that he speaks freely only to a few persons whom he chooses as the recipients of his confidence, and that, moreover, he speaks only on those matters which he selects. The White House could tell of many curious and laughable at- tempts to ‘‘pump” the President, all of them failures, ‘I approached my subject very carefully,” said a politician in Washington last winter, relating one of these failures. “The President was remarkably full of talk; I never saw him freer, and I kept him going until at last I thought my time had come, and I asked my question. All at once his mouth closed, and do what I would I never got another word out of him.” That is the story of many attempts to “make him talk.” But that he can speak, and to the purpose, everybody knows who has ever come near him on a congenial topic, and the long interview with a Hrrap correspondent, recorded in yesterday's Henasp, shows it clearly. The President is evidently not alarmed about the result of the election. He isa very shrewd politician, and his opinion is worth more than that of most. men. He has kept a very close eye on the canvass, for it is well known that he sincerely be- lieves that the good of the country demands another four years of republican rule. He early saw the causes which led to the pro- tracted conferences between Governors 'Til- den and Hendricks. ‘‘Tilden dares not lose Indiana,” he said at the time ; ‘therefore ho means to write such a letter as will not offend Hendricks.” The result proved him a sagacious prophet. We notice that the President does not claim Louisiana or Florida; and this again shows his sazacity and the closeness with which he watches political events. Louisiana will probably, as he knows, go democratic ; and he probably knows also that it ought to—that the good of all classes in the State demands a change there, which, indeed, is desired by the best republicans. North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland he expects the republicans to carry. That he did not add Virginia proves again that he is a cautious calculator. It is pleasant to read such frank utter- ances from the President. He begins already, in fancy, to feel the burden and cares of State slipping from his shoulders. We do not doubt he will lay them down altogether with a sigh of relief, and we wish him many years of happy and careless ease and enjoyment. The Religious Press on Methodist Fra- ternity. This centennial must receive another fraternal crown from the hands of the Meth- odists to sit side by side with the Presby- terian crown. It is, therefore, with profound gratitude to Almighty God that the Methedist records the reconciliation of the two chief bodies of American Methodists. The recon- ciliation, our contemporary says, is by ample authority; it is complete. It strengthens all and harms none. Neither Church loses an ounce of right or a hair of privilege. Hence the Methodist joins hands with the Method- ists of the South and sings with them, “Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love,” &c. It is glad that the work has been done and well done, and both sides will feel better for it. The Methodist has labored faithfully for years in the cause of fraternity, and its jubilation is therefore excusable. The Baltimore Method- ist, which has also been active on’ the Southern side for the re-establishment of fraternal relations, congratulates the Church of Christ at large upon the result—a result which it says is final, the commissioners having been clothed with plenary powers and authorized to adjust all matters of difference between the two churches. But this result is not, as many of our contemporaries have conceived, a reunion of the two churches. The Episcopal Methodist thinks it is very ques- tionable whether the incorporation of two such bodies into one would best subserve the interests of vital Christianity. But it thanks God for the present peace between the churches and the enlarged prospect of a grand spiritual harvest before them, as, im- bued with acommon spirit and actuated by acommon aim, they seek to conquer the world for Christ. The Christian Advocate of this city thinks the work of the commission cannot be overestimated as to its importance and its far-reaching influence upon Protestant Christendom. The North- western Advocate also rejoices in the basis of concord, since however just the struggle may seem to the immediate contestants in certain places the quarrels over church property have been unseemly and occasions for offence and stumbling to those outside the circles most directly concerned. Tho Christian Intelligencer is satisticd that the ree- onciliation and unification of the two Meth- odisms will have a national significance which will be quite equal to the ecclesiasti- eal importance of the event. ‘Lhe spirit of its accomplishment cannot but have a pow- erful influence upon the reunion of other long separated Christian bodies and upon the peace and prosperity of the whole coun- try. The Christian Union, too, thinks the fraternal union just established between the ~great branches of American Methodism is of special religious and political significance, The basis of agreement, says the Union, was the only one possible, but one which could not fail; and all Christians will wish the rec- onciled brethren the increase of joy and strength which must come of the union, and perhaps the example the Method- ists have set, and the infallibility of the method by which they -aeceeded, will stimulate other slightly divided brethren to labor for 4 perfect union, The Examiner and Chronicle considers tho fraternal union of the Methodists as a great omen for good—one of those bloodless, yet not less real, victories—a victory of brotherly love and forbearance over sectional hatreds and distrust. We are glad as Christians, we are glad as patriots, says the Meaminer, that would have got the news a day earlier and a this victory has been gained. But it isa line of victories which is not yet and will not be complete until more than the old re- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. lations are restored to the great family of Baptists in the North and South. The Evangelist hails the goodly prospect of organic reunion, and adds:—‘‘It is a day to expect the greatest and best events in the churches, and among these are great recon- ciliations among long and bitterly divided households of the same faith and order.” The Observer also joins the chorus and hails the event under consideration as another evidence that the time has fully come for burying the differences of the past and re- storing the bonds of Christian fellowship as they once existed among all the branches of the Church, The result of the deliberations of the joint commission, says the Observer, cannot fail to bring joy to every Christian heart, not only in the two communions rep- resented, but throughout the whole Church of Christ, wherever the circumstances of the separation and the promise of the reunion are known. This result will doubtless be a surprise as well as a joy to a large part of the Christian public. It was as little to be expected in ard from this quarter as in any branch of the Church. The International Rifle Matches. Popular interest in these contests has been steadily on the increase since the first meeting at Creedmoor, when our riflemen won their famous victory over the Irish marksmen. The effect of this triumph was to stimulate lovers of rifle shooting in this country to new efforts toward the attainment of efficiency and skill in the use of what has been popularly termed our national weapon, and the Dollymount victory formed a sequel to that of Creedmoor, which was a satisfac- tory evidence of their success. For the third time an international match between the best marksmen of Ireland and America is about to be shot, and to this event is added another of equal if not su- perior interest in the public estima- tion—namely, an international match, in which representative teams from five countries will compete for the palm of victory at the butts. For the first time in the history of*rifle shooting the crack shots of Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Australia will strive to snatch from the brows of the keen sighted, steady nerved Ameri- cans ‘the laurels which they have so splen- didly won in two great contests. It must be admitted that if Uncle Sam’s boys are to retain the honor of being the best riflemen of the world they will have to win it against foemen worthy of their best efforts, and while we entertain high hopes that thé result of the coming matches will be a glorious victory for our team we nor they must not forget that it will be won against men confident of their own powers. An analysis of the chances based upon the results of the practice of such of the teams as have had an opportunity of testing their skill at Creedmoor is, of course, subject to such errors as are created by circumstances affecting indi- vidual shooting. But it is, perhaps, possi- ble to arrive at something near a correct re- sult by comparing the aggregate scores made by the teams on their days of practice, for it is certain that these vary but slightly, and that the almost unchanged. The element of mero luck must be entirely ignored in the caleu- lation, for the contestants are all too skilful to permit of such a consideration. We find that the practice of the Australian team-—-the first to arrive at Creedmoor—has furnished the following general results :—Assuming the highest possible score to be unity, the Australians made at their four practices, 0.8447, 0.8438, 0.8405 and 0.7927, respec- tively. The Scotch riflemen in their home practice made 0.8092, and at Creedmoor, during two days’ work, 0.8348 and 0.8022, The Irish team, at practice in Ireland, made an average of 0.8210, but as the men have not yet arrived we can form no correct idea of their work at Creedmoor ex- cept from the foregoing. The Ameri- can team has been singularly irregular in its averages, but may be set down as worth from 0.8450 to 0.8500. The Canadian team have been practising assiduously, but they have not made public the result, so that we must set them down as an unknown quan- tity in our calculation. From present ap- pearances the victory lies between the American, Australian and Scotch riflemen, the chances of winning being in the order of naming the teams. Our Canadian friends may, however, treat us to an unpleasant surprise, for there are plenty of superb marksmen in that land of the beaver and the pine. We are satisfied with our, own men, and are content to leave the honor of the country in their hands, feeling assured that it will be gallantly defended. If one of the visiting teams wins the battle of the butts they may congratulate themselves on having won a famous victory. i Tur Recent Prizze Ficut.—The “strong light that beats upon a throne” may also fall upon a prize fight. The people who think that the late fight near Penns- ville, N. J., did not deserve reporting mis- understand the functions of the news- papers, Weeden, the man who is as- serted to have indirectly caused the death of Walker, and who was detected, arrested, and is now imprisoned, was dis- covered by a policeman who had read the description of him in the Hnaup reports. The story is elsewhere told, and the ability of Captain Allaire deserves commendation. The New Jerscy statutes in respect to prize fighting do not take into consideration the question of the death of ono of the princi- pals, but the common law may come to the help of the special acts of the Legislature, That Weeden deserves a severe punishment no one can deny, It would hardly be fair to accuse this man of murder in the first degree because he is a poor pugilist, who takes the risk he expects his opponent to accept; but the brutal sport should have its penalties. Here is a man who has killed another, or who has helped to kill him, and society demands that he shall receive the punishment of his rebellion. It is hard to abolish prize fighting, but it is growing more repulsive year by year. ‘Tue Greennack Party is going to have a State Convention and nominate a State ticket and Presidential electors. After the result at Saratoga practical joking in poli- tics seems in order, but it is not well to carry this tendency too far. relative averages remain | Pulpit Topics To-Day. Our advertising columns and budget of topics yesterday and to-day indicate the very general return of our city pastors to their flocks and their homes. Mr, Lloyd starts out with love for the Church of God, and makes the immovable apostle his goal. Mr. Herr will tell his people what the preacher’s theme and work are, and Mr. Hatfield will give some reflections connected with his summer vacation as illustrating God’s care over his people and the corre- sponding call for obedience and thankful- ness on their part. What the particular needs of the Church are at this time we shall learn from Mr. Leavell, and that sin is a cheat, if we did not know before, Mr, Cook would demonstrate to us to-day, and at the same time show us the neces- sity for the spiritual change which we call the new birth. But if there be any doubt about it Mr. Muir will make it so plain that the human heartisa ® den of iniquity that no one will doubt it hereafter. In such case the power of the Cross must be put forth to cleanse the heart ere there can be any church of the present or of the future to speak about, as Dr. Lori- mer will dilate upon to-day. And with the heart thus purified the Lord’s Prayer, on which Mr. Martyn will speak, can be offered acceptably. It is one thing to build and another to keep what we build. It is there- fore an important work for Dr. Deems to show us how to build and keep. And think- ing of Christ, we come to appreciate more and more, with Mr. McCarthy, His mediato- rial sacrifice, and to render to Him the homage of our hearts and lives as well as of our lips. The sayings of God are impor. tant at all times and worthy of closest atten- tion ; but Mr. Bache hes selected a few of them to call special attention to to-day, while Dr. Armitage will demonstrate that a soul many be saved from death by them. Mr. Morgan will set up the career of Mannsseh, the prince of fast young men, as an example to those hastening on in his footsteps, and if they do not repent soon Bishop Snow, who thinks he is the prophetic sign to be spoken against, will consign them to the great burn- ing, but to relieve their anxiety will tell them the time and manner of that terrible day of the Lord. What a life one must live among conflagrations and dissolutions and crashings of worlds, visible and invisible, as this messenger of God does! Hell could hardly have any terrors for such 9 man, Tux Bnooxirn Doctors are still debating the terms in which the recent yellow fever case should have been described. Dr. John- son, the attending physician, in his report to the Board of Health ascribed the death of his patient to ‘malignant bilious fever,” and it is contended that Dr. Otterson should have understood this to mean yellow fever. This is probably true, but if Dr. Johnson had called yellow fever simply yellow fever there would have been no misapprehension, . It must be said in his behalf, however, that the fault of not calling things by their right names is the fault of his profession, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tho sturgoon frightens away the salmon, Sod soil is best for parlor blooming plants, Thero are 12,000 Fronchmen in San Francisco, California salmon are sporting in Lake Gonova, Atlanta’s height above the sea level is 1,087 feet, Champagne will be unusually good and rich this year, Hans Zeymour had a bardy, Vere is dat bardy now? Democratic nominations seem to be made on the European plan, ; Maximilian’s coachman in Moxico now drives a soap cart in Warcham The schoolboy weleomes the days when molasecs taffy will not melt, You may wear your dusty old straw hat during the next two weeks only, Ornamental gardens will surround the Shakespeare Theatro at Stratiord-on-Avon, Country children aro cating roasted ears of corn, which taste like warmed up ice cream. Every Englishman has an innate passion for troe- planting, as he had it in Washington Irving's time, It is claimed that Postmaster General Tyner is sende ing Hayes documents to Indiana and Wisconsin through the mails. Achild’s book on animals says ‘dogs always sweat through their tongues.” The same may be said of Kilpatrick. The four-in-nana mail coach is popular in Paris suburbs, a rural déjetiner being the principal feature of the journey. A Newbarg editor wishes to know what part of the St Louis platform the Kelly gang stand on, The gang plank, of course, “Warrington”? used to say that the great obstacle to good government in this country ts the presence of the “pich and ignorant’ classos. Thousands of people will vote the democratic ticket because they want a change. Tilden’s clection will bring batter down to elght cents a peck. A Sussex county gardener has raised a new variety of squash, of the semi-turban kind, and it is said te resemble the face and skullof ahuman being. He has named it “the Woodford early.” English sportsmen among the aristocracy whe shoot on the moors make from twonty-five to thirty brace of grouso a day, though that is shooting with help. Twelve brace are good shooting for one man. There is complaint that the three Congressmen sent from St Louis are “mutes’’—Kehr, a lawyer; Wells, an omnibus and railroad man; and Stone, an irog mannfacturer, all democrats, not being speech-makera, The London Quarterly says that tne subtle gitts of rhetoric, tne mugic gift of poetry, are loved for they own sake, and they are not severely cross-exomine: upon the possession of historic attributes to whicl they do not pretend. Freneh watering placo advertiscment:—‘For ciaht francs and fitty centimos you may havea good bed room and threo meals a day, and afterward you can en Joy, gratis, sentimental walks by the seashore for the benelit of your digestion,” An oyster mates at the age of three years. Proviout to that tine he sits with his girl on the shady side of s rock, laughing at ber jokes, hugging her with zeal, an¢ explaining that the cloud-like form flitting above 18 one of the HkRatp steam yachts gliding by, Persona! in a French newspaper signed by Charles le Téméraire:—"“To a fair traveller. Would that I coule Warn where is reposing that gracoful goldfinch t Which, on Thursday, a pink and whito hand was giving grains of sced! Under the spell which she has felt my inuse—disereet as Lesbia’s sparrow—would intrust her secret to that friend." London Punch:—“Srs. Golightly (fishing for a com pliment)—‘Ab! Mr, MeJoseph, beauty 1s the most precious of all gilts fora woman! I'd sooner possess beauty than anything in the worla.’ Mr, McJoseph {under the Impression that he is making himself very j agreeable)—‘I'm sure, Mrs. Golightly, that any regret you may possibly feel on that score must be amply compensated for by—er—the consciousness of your moral worth, you know, and of your various meatal accomplishments !?"? During bis recent stay at Ischl the Emperor of Aus- tria saved the child of a poor woman from a violent death, As he was passing through the Rettenbach gorges a boy of four years old teli over a precipice, and, his clothes having caught on a projecting branch, ‘Was suspenied over a torrent some flity feet below, The Emperor, whose Proficiency in all athletic sperte in well known, jumped across the precipies, freed the ” boy from his perilous position and took him back te bis mother,