The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1876, Page 4

A MERRY CHRISTMAS. — Santa Klaus Organizes a Return- ing Board. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SAINT, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Observances and Christmas Literature. RED HOT FUN AMONG THE BROKERS. The children throughout Christendom have unani- mously chosen the venerable Santa Klaus Returning board for the Christmas holidays, and he has selectea this evening for the examination of all the stockings he may Ond Hung tu the chimney, with care, In bopes that St, Nichoias soon would be there, ‘Santa Klaus bas an excellent reputation for a man ‘m public life, and he is one of those who act upon the Christian principle that it is better to give than to re- ceive, It wiil be found, however, that as a Returning Board he is a regular ballot box stuffer, He won’t throw out or ‘“bull-doze’’ a single parish, but, gliding from house to house, he will put the mark of his ap- proval upon every box submitted to his inspection. But it would be a mistake to suppose he can do all this without as: nce, Heis in himself a fulland complete Returning Board, but, ke other honorable boards and official bodies, he is not without an army of followers avd retainers. He needs them, for he has | very great work to perform and ouly one night todo itin, There 1s so much buying aud selecting to be done, so many tastes and whims to be satisfied, and so many stockings to be filled, that even Santa Klang could not satisfy all the returns without the co-opera- tion of fairies and of men, Every house is tobe Visited, not a child must be overlooked or forgotten, and gayety and music must precede his coming. For pli ath not ceased to wait or the rich man’s sumptuot torth the unelaborate soun hey are offered at the door That guards the lowliext of the poor. Elaborate preparations are necessary for the work to be performed on Christmas Eve, and to this end Santa Klaus appoints any number of committees of investigation in advance. Conventions and caucuses are held in every part of the world, these being com- posed of school boys and school girls, dolls, fairies, and men and women. In these bodies the whole ques- tion is canvassed and discussed, all the necessary in- formation is gathered and subsequently imparted to Santa Klaus, and so it happens that the work of the Returning Board ts ail ‘ cut and dried” beforehand. ADJUNOTS TO THE RETURNING BOAKD, For weeks before Christinas the public schools are |- ali ablaze with the excitement of the approaching sea- son, The rule of three loses its terrors in tho more interesting mysteries connected with the probable re- turns which Santa Klaus will make. The nomiuative no longer agrees with the verb nor the adjective quah- fies the noun, but conjugations and declensions are botis left to take eare of themselves, ‘1am going to have arocking borso for Christmas,” says Jobuny, ‘and, while be straddles the fence in anticipation of his pleasure, some spirit bears the wish to the councils of the Board of Christmas Returns and Santa Klaus records it among his memoranda. ‘I want a book,” cries Fred, and the attendant fairies watch hia face to catch bis fancy and bear word to the Returning Board whether be prefers the ‘Arabian Nights,” or “Robin- son Crusoe,” or the ‘Swiss Family Robinson,”’ or “‘Un- dine and Siptram,” An athletic lad is hoping for a bat and ball for summer or for a sled or pair of skates for the snow in the streets and the ice in the park, The wish is sure to come true if it is so welldefined that Santa Klaus can make no mistake about it; but when a boy wishes for everything at once the Returning Board 1s apt to give him something left over from last year. The school girls, too, are busy with their hopes, and whilo they are giving vent to their wishes the dol!s aro in convention considering their wants. Petty has been a very good girl this year, and she must have a wax doll with bluo eyes and golden hair, says the chairman. Santa Klaus is at once informed of the resolution of the convention, Dolly has forgotten her lessons, and so she is voted a wooden baby with painted eyes, instead of real ones, A concurrent resolution is passed, proposing a Jack-in- the-Box for Petty’s brother, or a parchesi board tor some youngster who is a special tavorite with the doll world. It is thus the work goes on in every department and bureau, convention and caucus, com- Mittee and council which ure adjunct to tho operations of the Returning Board on Christmas Eve, and even MERRY CURISTMAS. It isthe purpose of Santa Klaus and all his attend- ants to make Christmas merry. ‘It I could work my will,” suid Sercoge, who 18 quite as much the Chrisi- mas ogre us Santa Klaus is tho Christmas gaint. ‘every \dtot who goes about with ‘Merry Chrisimas’ on his Ups, should be boiled with bis own puddiag aud buried take of hotly run through his het Such 'y sentiments have no place in the carols of rning Board, and even Santa Klaus himself bas been heard to sing :— Hang sorrow | care will kill a cat, And there(ure let's be merry. It te one of the ordained rules of this important coun- cil that Jack sbail pipe and Gill shall siug and all the Serooges in the world cau no more prevent it than they can suppress the Returning Board itvelf£ Noise and mirth areas much a part of Christmas as the Christ- mas saint himself, and he feels bound to protect tueso eis of the season. He is a jolly old fellow imseli, and be does his work with a laugh and merry twinkle of the eye which seem to indicate that he would not be averse toa ‘hot Scotch” or a “Tom and Jerry” on Christmas Eve. AN INTERVIEW WITH SANTA KLAUS. When it was ascertained that Santa Klaus had been ebosen as a Keturniog Board to canvass the Christmas boxes, a reporter of the HxraLp was despatched to In- terview him on the suiject. It was difficult to find the old feliow; for, like Jef Davis, when recently in New York, he was not disposed to be interviewed. He was found at last, however, on the top of a chimney so bigh that it overiooked all the world and at the same tme allowed the operations of the Board to bo carried on with the utmost secrecy. “The deuce of knaves,”” said Santa Klaus, when hic saw the reporter and his note book. ‘The aco ol beurts, if you please,” an- swered the reporter. ‘*You seem to be a good natured young man,” said Santa Klaus, *‘but 1’m airaid you've come to interview me.” “Not at all,” replied the ro- porter, ‘I only wish to speak with you for the benefit of the Hrratp.’* “The Heraty be—— | beg pardon,” the Saint remarked, most forgot myseli and the seaso: Dut the Scrooge party have put me out of all patienc They bave actuaily applied to the courts to enjoin my Retarping Board.’ “‘That’s the way all public men public measures are hampered nowadays; but it’s jot to be wondered at, after all. The nume is not action of the returnin 4, Florida and Louisiana.” * have nothing todo with them, led the hint upon which this Board was organ- ed. They deal with ballot boxes wnileI busy myselt with Christmas boxes. They count the votes while I number the stockings. Their arguments are based on s mostly done by iniries, them the completeness ganization, their ‘Ssecresy and their to comfort unfortunate little boys like Hayes and Wheelcr.’’ “Toa afraid you are prejudiced,”’ said tho Feportor, rofic tively. ‘‘Prejudiced! What do you mean?’ said Santa Klaus. ‘isn’t Hayes the father of an interest- ing family, while Til old bachelor? 1 have no use for a mi house full of chil- to-night as Chairman of the Board I don’t mean even to look while | shall barl down Hay od the reporter; Tilden is tho com‘ng man." “Not unless be gets fied. Bat, now, really you must excuse me, I ba You may tell the Iixranp ing Board will report to- picked up the réporter and chimney 10 the roof of the hea Court House. droppea him f(r house on the new Co! as was this interview the chough to show that tmas returns will oun ears, notwithstanding z plete - Tay Foe the opposition of the Scrooge part; the toymaker, has invented 100 new desi i. of grace 1876. He seems to bavo been Ren even f a , ‘with the spirit of the American Centen ‘The old Continentals In their ragged regimentals march and countermarch with all tho courage which was shown when The old-fashioned colonel Gi through the white, infernal ‘owder smok. {ideous, ba! red-eyed Jacks in boxes, vampire ens SSleoniadal sesaciers refuse to hie mit goblia slides for magic lanterns depicting the power ot are books full of fairy lore, skates and sleds sledges, representative jadtes from thi farsbest limits of the doll world, masks and faces . their unearthly unreaiity—every thing that the wildest invention could fashion or the wildest fancy desire were in the pack provided by the Returning Board. Few bands can trace the cunning devices after which so many of our Christmas toys are modelled. The truit of a Christmas tree is an accumulation incon- gruities, Santa Klaus himself, although the embodi- ment of tho spirit of our modern Christmas, bas littic or norelation to the story of the Christ-child whose birth it is the mission of Christmas to commemorate. Christmas customs, a8 a rule, have nothing to do with Christmas itself. A quaint old man once said thatthe English Christmas reminded him of Pan, who had the head of @ god, but the nools and tail ofademon. It is only within @ comparatively few years that Santa Klaus has become the patron saint of the season, and his characteristics are mostly drawn from the St. Nicholas which old Bishop Moore depicted in bis poem of “The Night Betore Cbristmas.” his tangled bair and beard, she merry twinkle of his eye, his pack and its con- tonts, his sledge and bis deer and bis familiarity with chimney tops were all given vitality im that poem, and it is in itself a suggestion, if nota catalogue, of what the reporter saw, OUR CHRISTMAS LITERATURE, Our Christmas literature is as incougruous as aro our Christmas customs. Old George Wither sung of Christmas as the time when Kings and queens poor sheopeotes have, n e with everybody ; ‘The houest now may play the kuave, ‘And wise men play the noddy, This rule seems still to hold good, and it justifies not ouly st, Nicolas and his pack but Santa Klaus and his Returning Board. It is 4 season of mirth and good cheer, of kind words and good gifts, Especially is it the season of good gifts to children, It is this more than anything cise that makes Santa Klaus a bomen of the event and makes us all repeat the caro! whic! Dickens wrote:— Then cyte Tu si And ry roof doth ring, choes from wall to wall, Tow nt old night, fair welcome to-night, pt King of the neasons all. But even the old saint is not so dear to us among our Christmas associations as the name of Chi Dickens, How our hearts go out to him every y: w never have any one to fill his place Chi as stories. ‘The Cricket on the “The Chimes’” as much a part of oar Cl the pine tree and the stoeking hung up by the chim- Since bis death we have gone over the old far ground and found new pleasure in our old A number of writers bave tried to fill the vacuum in holiday Mterature by writing stories of Christmas sights a cenes, but no one has ever caught the spirit’ of the day as he dia. The air was filled with the odor of bis plum puddings, our feet have danced to the music at Fezzi- wig’s bail. ‘Go to, my boys,” said Fezziwig, ‘no more work to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick! Christ mas, Ebenezer!’ Who among us bas not gone down the middle with ola Pickwick at Dingly Dell farm? And we have all bad a turn in that mad dance ip the “Cricket on the Hearth” where May and Edward firs! had the floor, but were soon followed by John aud Dot, then by Tackleton and Mra, Ficlding, old Dut and’ Mrs. Dot, and Inst, but not least, by Caleb aud ‘ily Slowboy. And Christmas dinners! May we never enjoy unything less than Bob Cratchit’s goose. And the pudding! allo! a great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing day! That was the cloth! A smell like an eating house and # pastry cook’s next door to each other, with a Inundress’ next door tothat! That was tho pudding.” Yo who to-morrow sit down to a rousing plam pudding after all the turkey you could eat aud every luxury the season affords, think of Bob Cratebit and bis solitary 20, and pack a busketfal of goodies and send it around to some neighbor whose family is larger than bis dinner, and sce 1! you don’t feel as well Batisfled as old Scrooge did after sending tho prize 0 poor Bob, And don’t let the day pass with- out reading one of Dickons’ Christmas stories; you will have akindlier fecling toward your fellow men when it is Do you remember what Frod said t That be had thought of Christmas as “a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant timo; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seom by one congent to open their shut up hei freely, and to think of people below them as if tl really were fellow passengers to the grave, and Lot another race of croatures bound on avother journey,” HOLIDAY DRY GOODS, A. T, STEWART & CO, Carriages surround Stewart's two rows deepall day long, and the slush besplashed pedestrian and la grande dame of the footman and pair pass together through the heavy doors to the counters piled with the latest fashions in dry goods, Stewart & Co. have just opened alos of plain, plaid corded Sedan and tufted suitings in dark colors, plain all wool serge, Glenham suitings and cashmeres and merinos, which thoy aro offering at low prices, They havo also a new lot of laces and embroideries, point and appliqaé shawls and Chantilly, Spanish, guipure, French, valenciennes and every other lace by the piece or made up. In popular dress goods this firm has new styles of Tycoon reps, zebra stripes, camel’s bair, cashmeres, Rugby plaid: Gretna plaids, Oxford meltons, Siberian snowflak Merrimac carainal reds, and an immense stock of stand- ard prints in dress patterns. The weather of the past few days has set one to thinking of nandkerchieis’ Here are silk, plain and colorod, hematitched and colored borders, band embroidered initials, and linen, plain and hemstitched, fancy woven and tape borders, and embroidered handkerchiefs of the finest quality. The millinery department has been enriched bya fresh importation of French hats and bonnets, fancy feathers, tips, plumes, vows, tics, sashes and bands and all the latest novelties in this line, In the tur de- partment 1s a new lot of sealskin sacques of good quality, thirty-two and thirty-six inches long, wh. aro offered at tempting prices, Fur-lined cloaks and circulars are also to be bad at ali prices and in all styles, and fine furs for trimming. Besides these cle- gant holiday presenta there will be found a large as- Sortment of dress goods tor evoryday wear, and howery ranging in price trom filteen cents to $50. Yew, $60 tor a pair of stockings; what do you think of that? but then they are eubroidered in the most elab- orate style aud ornamented with point lace. They are not stockings to wear on the street, particularly in such weather as that of the past week. DOYLE & ADOLPHL Doyle & Adolphi’s Grand street store presents a lively scene. There the Christmas purchaser will find good investment for bis money, as he may judve by the following prices:—Matelussé und beaver cloaks aud dolmans, ‘rom $5 to $40; worsted and silk suits, trom $6 to $45; silks and sating trom seventy-five cents to $225 a yard; broché ebawis, trom $& to $7d; ‘woo! shawls, irom $2 to $8; trimmed hats and bon- nets, from $1 50 to $8. In the tur department they announce goods reduced full twenty-live per coms be- low manulucturers’ prices; seal sacques at $90 and seal seis from $5 to $25. In the turnishiag depart- meut are silk bandkerchiefs for seventy-live cents each, scaris from twenty-five cents to $1 25; kid gloves at filty cents and $1; Balworal skirts trom filty cents to $4, and ladies’ underwear at all prices, 1p this cold weather it is worth knowing that one can got blankets trom $2 to $9 a pair and comiortabies irom $1 to $6, Dress goous are proportionately low. The popular snowflake patterns are to be had at twelve cents the yard od plaids at ton cents, double width poplins at twenty-five ccnts the yard aud cash- mere forty-fve cents, This firm offer as un induce- awent to the hurried shopper tne tact that all their goods are marked in plain figures, J. & CG JOHNSTON, This firm, whose place of business lies on Broadway, Fitth avenue acd Twenty-second «treet, offer a tine stock of rich silks in light and <ark colors at even Jess than last season’s prices, notwithstanding the ad- material, They makoa sating. Dam- specialty of bridul and alk in light jes ure reduced one- halt the regular pri sore antiques and other special fabrics ter evening and wedding range in price $9 the yard, Hrocaded veivets and satins, black sil! assé, a goods made of camel’s hatr, " which looks like a light fall of snow on a dark grouod, sold at $4 and $4 50a yard. The cardinal mixed goods are yery Warm and bright looking, double width, and are sold for $2 10 $2 25a yard. Heavy camei’s bair goods for dolmans in dcru and gray como at $4 und $4 60 a yard, In laces the half handkere! 1s among the no- velties and comes, {n real duc! and point appliqué, from $3 to $35 each. Prince: ce barbs and scarls, point, thread and guipure lac eelling jor nfy r cent less than eig! months ngo. The duchesse is the most in vogue this year. ‘This firm mak y Of silk stockings which are to be foun all shades of silks. Tn the furnishing department beautilal india bronze silk bandkerehieis, with a little design ombroidorea in the coroer, are reuuced from $1 50 10 fity cents, Skirts tn every Variety will be found at half price. In the cloak department are to be found heavy cloth cloaks from $3 60 upward, matelassé and d: weé cloaks from $15 upward, A special lot of seventy-four imported cloaks has been reduced from $20to $6. There are six dil- ferent styles of dolmans, a new one being far lined, These fur lined dolmans and circulars range in price from $65 upward, Children’s cloaks In great variety will be founa in this department. Woman’s wet friend, the waterproof cloak, 1s here in every nd underclothing in endless variety. Night tucked, for $1, and drawers avd chemise for sixty ana filty cents respectivoly. For the cold weather are knit jackets, with and without sleeves, and leggings long enough to defy tho elements, Seal: skin sacques, india shawls, and everything in the way of clothing tor the person and furnishing tor the house may be found here. A fine lot of real Persian and Tur- ktsh rugs of all sizes and pr! has just been opene!, New designs of Royal Derventer curpots at remarkably low prices, JONES. Jones, the dry goods dealer, Eighth avenue, corner N nth street, otiers the ‘extraordinary induce. Ni m "of a ‘great reduction in prices’’ which will prevail throughout the holidays. Persons living in the far west of the city can save time, money and trouble by doing their shopping near home.¢ On the first floor are to be had dry goods, fancy goods and notions, while, by ascending a single flight of stairs, one is lost in @ wilderness of surts, shawls and miliin. ery. Another ascent leads to an immense stuck of carpets, oilcloths, lace curtains, upholstery, &c. Far- niture and bed4ing may ve found in uny quantity on the fourth floor, while tue Dita is devoted to the manutae- turing of flanneis, blankets and other uscfal articles, On each floor a reduction of from ten to twenty-five per cent invites the economical purchaser to indulge in all kinds of jaxuries and necessities, Plated ware, giaseware, crockery, fancy goods and toys, loud the shelves and counters in every part of the store, and RO one Who enters over leaves empty-handed. fine ‘ | t of house furnishing goods will be found in the “spacious and well lighted basement."”” JOUNSON BROTHERS & CO. Johnson Brothers & Co. make an unusually fine display at Nos, 34 and 36 East Fourteenth street, Union square. Like all other houses they announce @ grand holiday reduction in prices in consequence of @ proposed change in the firm, which is to be effected January 1. A great clearing out sale is therefore an- nounced, and velvet goods, trimmed round bats and bonnets, flowers and feathers, hosiery and gloves offered at as low prices as may be found anywhere in the city. Considerably upward of 10,000 laaies’ and gentiemen’s heavy mermo underwear Invite pur- chasers, not so much by their comparative cheapness as by the great superiority of material, Ladies’ night dresses, to the nuinber of 4,090, a ing at less than the cost of the material, and flowers and feathers at less than half cost. Ladies’ and gentlemen’s silk umbreilas, of every new design in handle and shape, and silk handkerchiefs, of all sizea and colors, are dis- played in quantities beyond measure, 3. ROTHSCHILD, pt No ope in search of millinery goods at popular rices cun afford to pass the well known store of Rothscnila, No. 58 West Fourteenth street, or t! Brooklyn branch, at No. 261 Fulton street, Ti! house imports iis own goods, and claims to have the largest exclusively retail establishment of the kind in existence. During the past week fifty cases of novel- ties in the French millinery line were opened and ex- posed for sale, Their contents comprised the latest sbapes in Parisian felt hatsand Lyons velvet hats, really for trimmings, to say nothing of brand new andartistie designs in impian wings, bandeaux, and an immense variety of other styles in fancy feathers and ostrich plumes and tips. Round hats and bonnets, trimmea ‘with silk, velvet and feathers, are selling from $7 to $15, the’ former price having been from $10 to $20, and more expensive head wear at similar reductions iu price, GRIGG, HASKELL & CO. The extensive dry goods establishment of Grigg, Has- kell & Co., No, 809 Broadway, shows an immense stock, at enormous reductions, which claim the great recom- mendation of genuineness. A stock of dress goods patterns, fifteen yards each, are selling for $1 50 apiece. Silks, cioakings, black goods, furs and laces are winning golden money from all sorts of men and women. The usual reductions are announced in order to close out the various stocks of holiday goods. Now or never isthe time. A trip through their store during the coming week should not be omitted, if only to see what bargains may be obtained, before it is too late, SANTA KLAUS’ WORKSHOP—HOW PAINTED TRIFLES AND FANTASTIC TOYS ARE MANU- ¥FACTURED—FIFTY MILLION MADE EVERY YEAR. Few persons have any idea of the magnitude of the toy trade, and it is not generally known that the larg- est mannfactory of tin toys in the country 18 located in this city, But such is the case, and !t would be no ex- aggeration to say that more than one-balf of the tin toys sold throughout the United States aro made by the sivgle firm of Leo Schlesinger & Co. A visit to thoir factory at any time during the fall or early winter gives ono a fine opportunity of watching the process of toy making, from its carliest stagea to completion, and seeing in whata skilful manner the orders of the Christmas King xecuted without his personal su- pervision, It isasingular fact that notwithstanding the general depredsion in other branches of business, the toy trade—so far, at least, as the manufacturing ia coucerned—hbas steadily increased from year tu year until the present time, More toys of all kinds were made by this firm in 1876 ‘han during any previous year, From tho Ist of August until the middle of December the business is at its height, and work 1s carried on night and day. Dur- ing the months of November and December tho wholesale and retail dealers in this city and through- out the Eastern States are sepplicd, and in January large quantities of the finished toys will be shipped to England, Toward the close of January the San Fran- circo dealers are supplied, and in February the South American orders are filled and the goods shipped, ‘The trade with Europe is steadily growing, ture of tin toys the most difficult and expensive process is the preparation of the dics. ‘these have all to be cut from tho hardest steel and adjusted with a remarkavle degrev of nicety, so that the opera- tion is equally delicate and protracted. Some of the plainer toys require but one or two dies, while others of more borate design require four, six, eight and gometim: From January 1, 1875," more thun 700 different kinds of toys nave been added to a list which already exceoded 1,000, and for cash of these ° o four to si 0 that the ex. penses of diemaking are, perhaps, the heaviest in the jusiness, In muking the 1,734 kinds of tin toys—in- cluding the different sizes and shapes of a single re employed. 5,000, stamping and cuRing departments twenty-five presses are used. In making a plain and unpretentious horse, for every- day use, asheet of tin is cut into the proper shape, placed in a press and rounded out in sach a manner as to form one side of the proposed animal. ‘The two sides are next pussed through a couple o! cutting ma- chines, for the purpose of trimming off the superti ous metal, and are then sent to another part of the building, titted together in a mould, soldered and sent to fi yhere the completed animal assumes manufacture of a horse ig a comparatively simple ration; butin making a yellow lamb, standing on a smooth tin platiorm, witha painted bell about his neck, the animal passes through fifteen pairs of hands belore appearing in a fin te, A group repre- senting @ voy leading bis horse to a mangor 18 of ati.) more elaborate construction, and goes through at least ‘gaeaante operations belore being packed for re moval Of all toy animals the horse is the most popular, and he conseguentiy appears in nearly every variety of shape and size. The largest and handsomest is the “Dexter,” whose graceful form 1s made of zinc instead of tin. One hundred and eighty thousana **Dexters” are born and arrive at maturity in this tactory every year, and nearly 6,000,000 horses of a smaller brecd were turned out during the past twelve months. One of the simplest playthings made is tbe putty-blower, well known to every school toacher in the country. About 2,880,000 of these infernal machines were put upon the market by this one frm during the yoar 1876. The effects of the falling off in tho number of emigrants to this country during the past tew years does not seem to have reached toy land as yet, forsince August last nearly 10,000 emigrant wagons provided ‘with one horse and two wheels each have been made and sold. One of the best selling tin toys manulac- tured 18 the hose carriage, of which seventy-three dif. ferent sizes and shapes are made. Fifty kinds of express wagons, filty-nine kinds of steam cars and twenty-five kimds of horse cars aro manufactured. The newest plaything in tho market is the livery stable, and the swinging cradle immediately preceded it, withan American eagle at cither end, instead of the guardian angel of tradition andsong. One of the most important departments in the establishment ts presided over by a young man whose inventive mind is constantly engaged in producing new toys and ‘‘im- provising amendments” upon those already in vogue. All the paints used in the factory are mixed by the operatives themeeives before using, and in the process of painting alone all the larger toys pass through balf a dozen or half ascore of bands and brushes. The Painting 1s done exclusively by girls. Nearly 1,500,000 ‘in wagons are made every year, and it is estimated that the annual production of this ono manufactory will aggregate between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 toys. FUN AMONG THE BROKERS—BEDLAM IN THE GOLD ROOM. If there be any place within the jarisdiction of good old Santa Claus on the day before he comes whistling down the chimneys and is supposed to leavo his rein- deer prancing on the roof while he spreads his gifts among the children both of young and older growth it is the magic circlo bounded by the Stock Exchange and the Gold Room. Toa visitor from the rural dis- tricts there is as much mystery about the roaring, struggling, ‘harmlessly pugilistic clements at work within the railing of the Stock Board as thero is about tho “behind the scenes district” of a theatre during the performance of a holiday pantomime. A fresh boule of champagne, with the weck of the samo knocked off ‘ard the juco of grape flowing irom It in all the license of the vin! 18 nothing to the abandon of tl the eve of the Christm: . There were all sorts ot merriment in Wall Shrewd opera- tors, who were going home to spend Christmas ia cut- ting off coupons and counting their divid belore the second call of stoc aud joined ip the bat- crashing merriment, and hi ur pade aud pencils ready to draw oruers for in place of the damaged ones, according to the rules of the mombers uch cases made and provided. lieries of the Exchange were packed from id thi New York broker on early sounded for dismissal, on were heard to * Clear t 0 1 gohome eto” had his ifts snugly stowed away in bis sido hand was ready for more, and ood-bumored exgitement of the It was worth a turn o! an eighth per cent ona hour, handred shares to look down from above and see the fi every ‘amet was put in requist- tor Was typified in the sudden ted bladder filled with beans, nd shoulders when it broke mitrailieuse in the Franco- on, and the king's exhibition of an owered upon hi ballets irom war, ood singers of the Board had their voices woll and the glee club con- ulligan Guards,” “uid ”” and sundry on euch tune ney tively the departing chorus as tbe men who bat- tled dollars and stocks during the rest of tho year for. got losses in the hilarity of the da; ud would then and there have given a day to St. Nichols to buy bread for the poor shown his grizzled pi id the Presi- dent's desk, Phe sudden cry of was raised, aud then fora ew York jomed bat with old New York as the crowd rushed into the street, and the telegraph boys on the sidewalk enjoyed gytonastics in struggling fora handful of bright bulf dollars thrown at them trom behind the crowd by some one Who thought the privilege ot witnessing the scramble Worth all that be paid for it. TUR GOLD ROOM MERRIMENT. 'Twas not until veart; closing hour when the dealers in bard inowey eirtura, Tho Stock Ex change bad all the fun to itself till alter two o'clock, and the gold brokers were elustered about the old famihar fountain, when a committee which had been organized for a raid, from the Stock Board, secreted themselves jn the gallery, provided with small bags of caretully sifted flour. These men waited tl turo, and ata given signal, while the gold men were all 1 bunch and some of the laziest operators had waked w| to the fact that gola was to be carried until Tuesday and there were some snort contracts to be filled or tho amount needed to be Seenagee for, the bags were rapidiy emptied in the midst of the surprised and dis- gusted victims of the conspiracy. ‘The {un began as soon as the momentary astouish- ment subsided, and a legitimate cola water method of Tevenge Was adopted. Armed with small buckets of jee cold Croton, and like au army of raiders with ro orders, the committee trom the Excbange out. The flour on their hands and coat sl trayed them, and a cold bath was the immediate cou- sequence of discovery, There was no use to grumble, there was no redress, and little retaliation. The flour and the Gold Room boys had the best - sequence of ill nature and went minus the ulster and partly minus the neatly cut coat bencath it . THE NATIVITY AND THE DIVINE ABT. The shepherds who attended so faithfully the Divine call atthe stable of Bethlehem, and paid homage to the new born Messiah, little knew what music would doata later period to commemorate such a greatevort. Every Christinas the Christian world becoaes ecstatic in 1s endeavors to do honor to the birthday of the Saviour, In Now York the festival will be observed becomingly, as may be seen from the following musicai pro- grammes:— ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL CHUNCH. Dr. Beames, organis:. Choir:—Mme. Dowland and Mrs. Brewer, sopranos; Mrs, Sarab Barron Anderson, Miss Emanuel and Miss Dickerson, altos; Mile. Mar- guorite Selvi, lady tenor, and Mr. Tom Bullock, tenor; Mr. Utto D, Lehman, baritove; Mr, Herman Frost, Jr., basso. The following ure the selections :— Opening, “King all Glorious," J. Barnby; “Venite,” chant, Morley; “Gloria Patris,” after psaims 19, 45 and 85, WA. King; ‘fe Deum,” after first lesson, eames? festival, in D; ‘Jubilate,’ atter second lesson, Mosen- thal, in D tlat; bywn '17, “Hark the herald angels sing,” Mozart; ‘Response ‘to Commandments, “Gloria Tibi;” hymn 24, ‘Angels trom the reaims of glory,” Sioulienne; offertory alter sermon, trio and chorus, jaydn. CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE RYANGRLIST. Mr. Louis C. Jacoby, organist of this church, has prepared the adjoined musical programme for Christ. mas Day:—Carol, “tara all bright are beaming,” School; “Venite; “Gloria Patri,”’ Garret, Bridge- water and Haydn; “fe Deum,” ‘Jubilate,” A. W. Berg, in B fat; nymn 19; *Adeste Fideles;”’ “Gloria ‘Tibi; hymn 24; offertory anthem, ‘‘Now when Jesus was born,’ Jacoby ; “Sauctus No, 3,’ Jacoby; C. hymn 26, ‘st, Agnes;” “Gloria in Excolats,” SY, THOMAS’ CHURCH, The choir in this church consists of Mrs. P. D. Gul- ager, solo soprano; Miss Emily Winaut, solo contralto; Mr. Edward B. Scovel, solo tenor; Mr. Thomas P. Wickes, solo basso, and Mr. G. W. Warren, organist. The musical selections are cosmopolitan in character, varying from Mozart to Dr. Cater. ANN’S (ROMAN CATHOLIC) CHURCH, M. Louis Dacbauer, the orgznist of this church, has repared for Christmas Day tbe celebrated mass of me. de Grandval, Gounod’s “Christmas Hymn,” for female voices, 4 Dachauer’s ‘Ave Maria.”? The principal artists will be Mite. Corradi, Mile. Gomien, Messrs, Fritsch, Blum, Dachauer and Biaila, BT. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHURCH. Thomas’ orchestra will commence the musical pro- gramme at this chureh on Christmas Day with an ap- propriate overture, Gounod’s ‘Meuse Solennelle” will then be sung, the principal soloists being Miss Teresa Werneke, Miss ‘y Werneke and Signor Tatwaro, Toe distinguished organist, Dr. liam Berge, will be the director on the occasion. TRINITY CHURCH, Mr. Henry Carter, the organiwt of ‘Old Trinity,” announces the following musical bil tary by Henry Carter, finale ot Thiele’s Hummel’s masain E flat, Gounod’ them,’ Gado’s “Holy Night,’? by 1 , M er; closing voluntary by the orchestra, lod by Mr. ‘ter; Beothoven’s second symphony. ST, STEPHEN'S CHUKCE. Mr. Danforth, organist of St. Stephen’s chureh, will buve the subjoined musical selections on Christ- mi Day:—"Processionat March,’’ Verdi; grand mass ip KE, Spatsino; “Vent Creator,” Dantorth; offertoire, ‘‘Adeste Fideies’’; v rs service; ‘Dixit Dominus,” Assioli; *Magnineat,”’ Nini; Christmas hymp, tenor solo with violin obligato, Magaguin. The soloists are:—So| Rosetil; contralto, Mile. Munior; tenor, ne, Signor ‘Telle; basso, Signor Higanl, A strong chorus and full orchestra, ull under the direction of Henry B. Dan- forth will take part in the services, ST, COLUMRA’S C Organist, J. H. Beglan and Miss Begian; alto, M Lurch; bass, Mr. Kram CHURCH OF TI Musical director, Mr. Evai soprano, Miss Emma C, ‘trumpet, Mr. Ar- buckle, Principal musical selections, ‘*Messiah,’”’ Hundel; “Christmas Morn,” Gouaod; *‘Ave Veram,’’ Mozart. CH. organist, Mr. Brewer; HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. Organist, Mr. Ruttenber; soprano, Miss Farrell; alto, Miss Perring, tecor, Mr. Lancaster; bass, Mr. Almy. Musical sciections trom Bach, Handel and Buck. BT. PETRR’S CHURCH, Organist, William ¥. Pecber; soprano, Mrs, Easton; alto, Mrs. Ford; tenor, Mr. Savage; bass, Mr. Stand. Mass, Haydn, No. 16, *O Salutaris,”’ Pecher. : ‘ST, JAMES? CHURCH, Organist, Mr. Jardine; soprano, Miss Agnes Perring; alto, Miss Jurdine; tenor, Mr, Smith; bass, Mr, Emer- son, Musical selections from the works of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Handel. ZION CHURCH, Organist, Mr. Bristow; soprano, Mrs, Emily Butman; large choir. Masical selections from the works of Han- del, Mendelssobn, Bristow and Mozart, ST. MICHARL’S CHUKCH. Organist, Mr. Raboch; sopranos, Miss Keenan, Miss O'Neill, Miss Kavanagh; altos, Miss O’Rour! Miss Blake, Mise O'Hare, Miss Nowman; tenors, Messrs, Shappart, Beglan, dicBride, vairymple; basses, Messrs, Ahearn, Finley and Downey. Mass, Lambiliotte, GRACK CHURCH, JERSEY CITY. Organist, Luuis Berge; soprano, Miss Wreaks; alto, Mrs. Holbrook; tenor, Mr. Norwood; bass, Mr. Behan. Musical selections from the works of Donizotti, Men- deissobn, Rossini and Rossi. GRACE CHAPEL. Organist, Mr. Charles A. Cuble iss Lovell; tenor, Mr. Slocum; Vass, cal selections from the works of soprano, Mrs, BROOKLYN. , Mrs, Gubl and Miss Mooney, altos; Messrs, Mr. Alvanze, basso. No, 12. Second high ST. STEPHEN’S CHUR Organist, Mr. W: Organist, Mr. Schou; tenor, by Hadyn, Mozart, CHRISTMAS 3 on eight bells. birthday.” lappy C! Ring out the bells.” ol ‘7. Carol—“Christ was born on Christmas Day.” CHRISTMAS CHIMKS AT WASHINGTON. Mr. F, Widdowe, of the Metropolitan church chimes, the followmg appropriate selections on Christmas morniug, at six o'clock ;-— 1, Changes on eight be! 2; “Joy to the worid” (“Antioch”), 3. Coronation Hymn, 4 Carol—"Caroi Christians,” 5 es." 6. 7. 8 . & s Twelith Mass, 10, Ht glory be,” Adam Geibel, rf eb (Messiah). be: t oria ip Kxeolsis,” chant No. I—Hark the song of angeis” Melody, “Mon of Harlech." How the glad sidin: Home, Sweet Home. AT LUDLOW STREET JAIL, Ludlow Street Jail looked sombre yesterday when a Hxnrawp reporter knocked at its portals for admission, Tho building was shroaded in gloom, and tne lively scenes taking place immediately outside, about the vicinity of Essex Market, where hundreds of people were busily intent upon making holiday purchases of toys, bonbons and turkeys, with innumerable other articles suitable either tor home con- sumption or friendly presentation, served to make more intense the darkened chill of hopeless !mprison- ment within. The Christmas repast will enliven the monotony somewhat, Warden Watson will provide Jor his involuntary guests a repetition of the Thanks- giving dipner. This wil consist of some hundreds of pounds of — chicken, of vegetable § condiments, courteous keeper iniormed ihe visitor, to be given at the Warden’s fodividual expense, Tweed, who 18, of course, the most distinguisted 1u- mate, will most probably bo ied upon delicacies in the poultry ling, to be supplied by his tamily, Should this Hot prove to be the case ho will be served, like his less notorious fellow prigoners, with the fare suppiied by the bounty of bis jailer, The “old man” continues in his reticent mood, Ho refuses absovutely to see or seen by any one outside hix immediate relatives, and very few of them trouble him lately. F the past week or so no one bas attempted to intrude upon his privacy. His spirits continue about the same, What enjoyment he cun getina quiet way, means at bund, be giadly avails himsell of, 4cd, as his wishes are tow, his wants, under present circumstances, are ly plied, ” Avisson. with enormous quantities &e., fo 8 SCHOOL GIRLS’ CHRISTMAS, The pupils of the Fourteenth street school and kindergarten celebrated the Christmas closing of the school yesterday. Tho celebration occurred at tho schoolrooms No, 158 Wost Fourteenth stroct, under Miss Josie Martin, 8 being participated iu by the puplis, whose ages range jrom 61x to sixteen years. Alter the order of exercises was ne through, dancing was begun, which pleased tho little ones so much that some of them expressed the wish that ‘Christmas would como vitener,’? { NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE POVERTY STRICKEN. A Poor Christmas for the Unemployed Thousands. Coal Not Yet Distributed by the Charity Commissioners. RESOLVED TO GET WORK A Serious Movement Among the Idle Men, WHERE THE CHARITABLE CAN HELP. spinnin teeieniatemt To-day is a bleak Christmas Evo for thousands of poor workingmen’s famiiies in this city. It is dismal and bopeless fur the majority of them. With the cold charity of the world for the support of tnemscives and their families how else could it be? Men full of strength and who are willing and able to work have to walk the streets idle and penniless, begging the bread they cannot get a chance to earn. Men have the heartrending sight betore their eyes of their wives and children suffering from hunger. This is perhaps the most forlorn Christmas that the majority of the work- ingmen have ever experienced. Month after month they have been parading t ‘eots vainly looking for work, #rageling about from shop to shop, always bearing the story that there is no work. How many poor families will to-morrow be without a cheerful fire- side it is casy to imagine. What a gloom will be spread uver tho homes of these idle men can be con- Jectured trom what all of us can conceive to be the abode of poverty, and, in very many instances, of sickness added. The private charities, religious and secular, cannot supply to the fumilies of haif the auem- ployed as much as a Christmas dinner, even if the channels of their labor led tnem tothese homes, TRUSTING TO CHRISTMAS TIME The idle, homeless men, in tho average numbers, applied during the past week at the police courts for committal to the Workhouse. «The applicants were all in extreme destitution. Those out of work who could at all remain in the city have done so until after Christmas, They naturally trust to the generosity of the well-to-do for assistance at this season of the year, when everybody is urged to be brotherly and sympa- thetic toward the poor, Not for many years has there becn such astern call for help upon the rich as there isnow. So far the poverty, which 12 80 widespread, has not received the full measure of charity it needed; but at this season, when most people allow their better nature to have. its way, tho help given to the distressed and suffering will bring to some, at least, of the help- Jess unemployed a share of the good things usually in- dulged in at Chriatmas time. The homeless men them- selves seem to think so, for otherwise the numbers seeking shelter on the Island should be much larger than the records show. AT THE DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. At the Department of Charities and Correction yes- terday Mr. Kellock had qaite a large number of men applying for assistance, but not as many as on tho pre- vious days of the week. It was the old story with allof them—neither bread nor shelter. Of course they were turned away without anything. The action of the Board of Apportionment in refusing to grant the appropriation of $100,000 for the outdoor poor has taken away all chance of meeting the petitions of applicants in this department, The result 1s that hundreds of people daily have to wander around the streets without food, who might, if funds were here at the disposal of the Superimtendent, be reloased from the pangs of absolute hunger. The women mado applications in about the usual numbers, thus showlpg that the tamilies of the poor generally have not yet begun to feel the generosity of the rich in their Christ- mas charities, As usual, many of these poor people were in the greatest need, Dut at allevonts they gain something by calling on Mr. Kellock, as he gives them information as to bow best they can havea chance of being relieved by some of the charitable societies, The petitions for coal are the most numerous, the women seeming to taink that they were entitled to that at least, COAL TO BR DISTRIBUTED IN JANUARY, In former years coal was distributed every winter, and will be this winter, early in January. The dis- tress among the working classes this season, however, bas driven thousands of people to apply for it earlior than in former years was necessary, even for those ordinarily dependent on it, Yesterday the Charity Commissioners advertised for proposals for 3,600 tons of coal, to be distributed among the outdoor poor, the contracts to be awarded at an earty day after January 4, 1877. The coal must bo the: best white ash stove coal, each ton weighing 2,000 pounds, and well screened. The city will be divided into dis- ts for the distribution of the coal and the contracts parately for éach district, The first ict, irom the Battery to Fortieth street, will ro- cetve 2, tons; the second, from Fortieth street to the Bridge (the Twelfth, Ninetecntn and T' sive, It is the intention uf the Commissioners to sup- plemeat the umount of coal named above by a still far- \her supply. WHAT COMMISSIONER BRENNAN The reporter inquired from Com: yesterday bow it was intended to get be to purchase the 3,600 tons of coal advertised for, and he expluined that us the Board of Apportionment had refused to grant the appropriation asked for it would now be necessary to cut down 1 some of the departments on the islal meet the outlay for the coal. The Commissioner further stated that it was an error to say that if the Commis. sioners had got the money asked for 1n the estimates any considerable part of it would go in salaries of officials employed in distributing it. Last year the Commnesion employed no one extra to attend to the outdoor poor, aud the only founvation thore could be for wuch a statement was that in previous years fifteen men were employed for three months ata salary of $50 a month cach If the money had been granted this year and fitteen agents were employed Mt was plain that the expenditure in salaries would be @ mere fraction of the whole sum apportioned. It was the intention of tho Commissioners, he said, to make the churitable societies serve as agents this year, and through them the coal would reach the poor, In tact, in any way that deserving cases could be attended to and relieved the Commussioners were ready to act, THE WORKINGMEN’S ACTIUN, ‘The leaders of the workingmen ure in consultation still as to the best way to put the men at work and re- heve them in their poverty. They do not intend, when ouce they put their shoulder to the whecl, to stop until all danger of afamine among the working- meu 18 removed. Several piavs are under considera. tion; but the foundation of them all is that the idle men must be put to work. The pew year will see some strenuous action done im behalt of the idle mechanics, as the feeling has gone abroad that the wealthy classes would let the men starve to death if not actu- ally driven into helping them. The leaders say that the workingmen mus! rely on themselves and on themselves alone in this, a8 well as evory other emer- gency, and they take the prosent distress as proof of the fuct. Who, they ask, has come to the help of the thousands of idle men during the pasttwo months’ They express themselves as teeling very bitter over the relasal of the Bourd of Apportion- ment to give the $100,000 to the outdoor poor, an xp- Propriation inanifestiy needed this winter, This re- tusal, they say, plamiy shows that the Board of Ap- portionment does not believe that there is at this moment a yeveral distress amoag *he working classes, Excise money would rot be more than sut- ficient for its ordmmary uses. Very likely after New ‘Years, there will be a of mass meetings helu by gmen tu tu race of whatever plans the jers may determine on at their mecting next Tuesday evening. MUST GET WORK. Among the mechauies there is a growing feel discontent at the prospect of idleness during th ter months, which will not require much to have it take an open, detiunt form, These men, the vast ma- jority of them, will not go to the Ivland und cumstances, They do not believe t » and they will not tion of affairs to be suflicient reason wh not be supplied them by the city, On in hef by Xumpie set in some large cities in Kurope when ordinary enterp been uta standstill, So jor this season but very few of tho better class Ot mechanics have gone to Workhouse, those who did go being tor the most part men who belonged to the di who form the class that may be ‘There were, ot course, is po:nt they reat earnest, no duvbt influenced to their be- er in the city. In regard to this yesterday a conver; with , Who stated that of the better ere were few on the Island. He je last year there were on the Isiand as there are now, ‘saino class of men. The majority our mechanies, he velieved, still cling to the hope that with the new year there may come a better time for (bem, and perkaps there would, But, no matter what class of the mechanics may have gone to thé Island, they are still workingmen, reaay and willl to caro their bread if they could get # chance. that the larger body of the tradesmen now idle for * so for the’ | several mouths cannot continue to remain Dext three moaths is what the jeaders of the trades in- tend to urge, and the next phase of the present distress among the working classes will bear entirely upon that point as a basis. CASHS FOR THR CHARITABLE. A family is in great distress on the first floor, rear bar: i, hays Lg strect. fee ‘- ‘n the rear house, No, 20 Spring street, floor, woman is destitute. iin At No, 261 Bowery, attic room, is a deserving woman very poor, A woman in poverty will be found on the third floor of No, 202 Mott street, uear Spring. A widow wao has five children needs immediate as sistance at No, 273 Spi street, top ficor, A widow is in distress on the second floor of No. 112 Greenwich street. A family isin wantin the rear house, top floor, No, 158 Greenwich street, On the fourth floor of No, 831 First avenue is a poor cripple with four children, At No, 342 East Thirty-sixth street is a man in poverty. In room No. 3, No. 216 West Forty-frst street, a family is suffering. A woman, with a large family, needs help at No. 31 Park street, second flocr, back room. A woman and ber children are destitute at No, 384 East Sixty-third street, third floor, An industrious woman, whose husband has been sick for three months past, asks for help at No 144 Forsyth peat rear house, third floor, There are five children suffering, A woman and her five helpless children are im great want at No. 140 West Nineteenth street, rear house. A sick mechanic and bis wife, who is an invalia, with five children, are destitute at No. 23 Spring street, third floor, re: jouse. A lamily of eight are in distross at No, 332 East Thirty-sixth street, The husband recently sustained a fracture of the leg. A widow 1s in Want at No, 63 Houston street, top jor, A widow 18 in extreme poverty at No. 222 Chrystie street, top floor. A woman needs relief at No. 539 West Forty-seventh street, rear house, top floor. A family of 1x are destitute at No. 334 East Twenty- Alth street, third floor, back room. A widow, with o large family, needs immediate bala at No, 397 Madison street, rear house, second joor, An ex-soldier is in want at No, 403 East Fitteenth street, third floor, A fasnily of six are in poverty at No, 69 Forsyth Street, rear house. A woman in distress needs assistance at No, 127 Madison street. A cripple and his sick wife can be relieved at No. 148 Leonard streot. An industrious woman and her paralyzed husband are in poverty at No. 245 Rivington street, top floor. A widow and her three cnildren are {n great need at No, 143 Madison street. This poor woman is an emi- grant from Scotland, and must be relieved by private charity, The family are suffering very much. A widow and her five children are destitute at No, 91 Orchard street, fourth floor, bargene at See. widow, whose husband died recently, is in at No. 176 Monroe street, 4 vit At No, 514 West Twenty-seventh street, rear house, first door, a woman is very poor. A woman, who has an invalid daughter dependent on her. isin utter want at No, 211 East Thirty-eighth street, second floor, At No, 58 Ridge street, rear house, second floor, a woman is famishing. A widow needs help at No. 88 Sheriff street, rear house, second floor, She has four children, Another case that needs in the basement of No. 341 West Sixteenth street a woman is in distress, \d six children are in want at No. treet, rear houee, third floor. destitute at No. 603 East Tinrteenth street, A woman 1s in want at No, 103 avenue B, rear house, top floor. A sick woman can be visited at No, 202 West Nine- teenth street. Coal is needed at No, 58 Ridge strect, rear house, second floor, where a poor woman ts suflering. A widow and ner child destitute at No, 62¢ Groenwicl eet, first floor. A woman and ber three children willbe found su& foring ut No. 282 Weat Sixtieth street. A woman can bo aided at No, 180 East Third street, top floor. At No, 424 East Thirteenth street, third floor, = family with a sick child can be helped. A family aro starving at No, 224, Catharine street, A woman can be relieved at No. 11 Jeracy atreet, top floor, An old man is in want at No, 114 Willett street, rear house, second floor. A destitute man can be helped at No, 57 West Forty second street, rear building. BENEVOLENCK IX JERSEY CITY. A ladics’ association, under the title of St. Anne's Sewing Society, is no t service in the cause of the poor on Jersey City Heights. The objoct of the association 1s to provide clothing for tho desti- tute poor during the winter.” The members o1 the so- ciety willbe happy to receive old clotheg, pieces of calico, cantoa flannel or anything else fade can be made useful. Contributions may be lett at th 1 toral residence, next to St. Joseph’s church. Very Rev. Mgr. Scton intends to make a special appeal tor the poor in his parish, HOW TO CURE POVERTY. To toe Epiror ov tas Heratp:— Your columns doing more to arouse the people to consider the cause and cure of poverty than all the jour- nals put together, and simply because you give us the facts, unwelcome as they may be, In my opinion poy- rety is the last ditch ofevil. Intemperance can be over- come by making all alcoholic drinks contraband—to be seized and destroyed wherevor found. That makes an end of thatevil, Crime can be cured by shutting up or killing the criminal, But the poor—what in the world shall we do with them? The more you feed, clothe and minister to them the more you may do it, The world owes them a living, they say, and you have had your labor for your pains [am prepared to prove that soup houses, desaltory efforts to feed promiscuous crowds, giving to street beggars, and all that sort of thing, has done more to foment than to alleviate theovil, What, then, shall we do? Let the suffering starve? Manifestly not; since to do that would result in bread rivts, Parisian Communism and the anothilation of society. 1 think som can be done. There is in this world a something culled Christianity, The founder of it was bornina manger, bred ainong mendicants, preached bis tirst sermon from the text ‘Ihe spirit of the Lord God is upon me _ becau: he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor,” passed His whole ministry working wonders among the poor, Jame, halt, blind, &c.; spoke a thousgund words and ucted a thousand times 10 works of wonder for the poor to one for the rich, and then ended His carcer ing be~ tween two poor thieves, Now notion ib this Christianity which He estabiis! jas Something, aay everything, to do with this evil of poverty. Go sell all that thou bast aud give to the poor, said this Man of Sorrows. And o1 of the first principles at tho foundation of Christianity was the principle—“They bad all things im common”—showing that poverty was a thing nover to bo known in the Church of Christ. Now, what would the world think i! every church congregation ia New York should to-day pledge to sce that no family in this city should suffer for want of food, fuel or clothing so long as there was a use for Christianity in the world? There would then remain but one thing—how to reach the deserving or actual poor to the exclusion of the frauds Here we have the example of the great preacner to the ir. The idences of poverty are prima faci ‘ot one In usand can be mistaken. A live Christian is an ine Rel ole to poverty’s hut. Foliow Jesus and He will lead you to the fireless hearth, the empty basket and the weeping sufferer. [tv Christianity that the with the wants of their that there is between the Church now and Pentecostal Christianity. CHRISTIAN, A BURGLAR RAID. shame in modern HOW THE BURGLARS ARE WORKING LIVING IN BROOKLYN. About three o’clock yesterday morning the liquor store of Charles Bocher, corner of Broadway and Con- ‘way street, was entered by burglars, who forced open ‘a window and secured the following property :—1,750 cigars, three jars of liquor, seventeen bottles of wine, one silver bowl and seven decanters. Subsequently the pfoperty was recovered by Sergeant Hambler and Detective Murphy of the Ninth sub-precinet, The proprictor of the store discovered that he had been robbed just as the thieves, four in number, were ¢riv- ing off in a wagon with their booty, He discharged a pistol after them and gave the alarm. The police sub- sequently foand the wagon where it had been deserted ¥, the burglars. “A. Fay, plank road, East New ork,’’ was painted on tho vehicle. Shortly atter tour o'clock in the morning tour colored men were arrested on the road leading trom the @cene of the robbery, and they are held on suspicion of being the guilty men, They gi heir names aa William Smith, Romar Best, Thomas Smith and Samuel Hunter. They were ar- raigned betore Justice Semler and committed to await examipation, For A. ‘The residence of Mr. D. 8 Babcock, No. 101 Lefferts pl was red by a sneak thiet on Friday even- lug, while inmates wore at supper in the lower part of the house, and robbed of $600 worth of jew- elry and gold sud silver coin, Tne rovbers effected aa entrance by climbing up the grapovine in the roar of the house and raisiog a window on the second floor, ‘rhisclaes of robberies has become quite trequent Brookiyn ot late. The dwelling of Mr. W. Harper, No. 1,444 Pacifio street, was entered in asimilar manner and @ small amount of money wa: len, The liquor store, No. 286 Bedford avenue, was en- tered by means of skeleton 8 yesterday morning, and $7 in money Jewelry to the ice of Mr. MeCorinick, No, 1,5' Clothing worth $ jehael Tully, No, 181 Hamilton nue, aud bos gory 'Yy, of the Third preeinot, yosterday, cau: the st’ of alias “Buck” Sweeney, cv Trell and William Ma:lory, on susple the parties who porpetrated ihe robuery, ‘They were committed to jail by Justico Delmar to uwait examination, 3 ' }