The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1878, Page 10

10 NEW YORK _ HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1878. —QUINTUPLE SI SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, VROPRIETOR WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- tender. In order to insure witention subserilers wishing their address changed must as their new address. tters or telegraphic despatches must HRKALD, pd packases should be properly sealed. Lejrcted communications will not be returned, A OPERA. ov at the Tnlernational “E powition can hace tein letters Wi postpaid) addressed to the care of our Paris I PEES OFFICK—NO, 7 STRADA PACE ions snd advertisements willbe received and s the sume terus ay in New WALLACK'S TAEATRE—scu00n FoR Scanpat. BOWERY TALATRE—Macnurit AMERIVAN 1 STANDARD NIBLO'S GARDEN—W iss. NEW YORK AQUARIU GRAND OPERA HOUSE -Vauirry. PARK THEATRE—Uvrnicaxes BROADWAY THEATRE AW LYCEUM THEATRE—Josi GLOBE THEATRE—MAi BOOTHS THEATRE ~1 BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, AN OF THE PEOPLE. GILMORE) KURTZ ARC GALL IMEATRE BRIG PUEATRE COMIQ TIVOLE THEATRE - BROAD ST. THEATS BROOKLYN PARK THRATRE iphia—Rouert Heiter. Dirromacy. QUINTUPLE “SHEET. W YOR kK. SUNDAY, MBER 22, 1878 The Herald Circulation, One hundred and six thousand and thirty (106,030) Hznaups were sold yes- x terday. The probabilities are that the een waves York and its vicinity today will be cool and partly cloudy. ‘Jo-morrow it will be cool and fair. | WAL Str stocks was v dull, ine prices were gener- ally higher. Gold opened at 1003, and closed at 1001p. Money on call loans was lly to 2. Government bonds were stronger, States dull and railways buoyant, Burnos Ayres is the place for the paper money advocates. That country, which is dead broke, proposes a loan of eighty millions paper dollars, which is equivalent to three millions in gold. ‘Tne OnLy Question that now remains to be solved in the Adams tragedy is, Was the ac cused, Bleutge, justified in his assault upon the deceased? A little good detective work would soon solve the problem. Irv Mr. Kevry is anything of a political | ‘ammany people will save their money by remaining away from Syracuse. They will, he believes, be lucky if they get in the gallery ae the State Convention. prophet the an um Cornest ‘ONDENT wt photographs ited States Senatorial contest in North na on another page. The three principal candidates are the present Senator, Mr. Merri- mon, Governor Vance and General Thomas L. Clingman. Ir irshould turn out that the widowed occu- pant of a miserable garret in Newark, N. J., is, as it is supposed she is, the heiress to afive mill- ion property in England, it will be another illustration of the old proverb that has linked fact and fiction together for so many ages. Tne Irnec the communication be- tween Hay publication of an earlier report of the effects of the te le storm wh tion of the forme: The de- struction of property, it will be seen, was very great: lives lost. LARITY 1 recently. Tue Supstaxce of an interesting document from the ecclesiastical authorities at Rome to the archbishops and bishops of the Roman Catholic Chureh in this country is elsewhere printed. Important changes are, seen, made in the discipline of the Chureh, and, in addition, the title of pastor is abolished for that of rector. ‘Tue Fat Mrerinc at Creedmoor, which closed yesterday, witnessed some of the best shooting ever seen on any range. In the com- Petition for the Wimbled for instance, bull’ Mr. traordinary record of 143 poi sible 150 at ove thousand yards, e ppears this year to compete with our invineible » scored by Hyde made the fifteen consecutive two gentlemen, while ex- No foreign | n’s Success in the race for it will be seen from the ut, by no means certain. Stute is, in round num- is, of a correspond total vote of the Th hers, about two hundred and forty thousand, of which the republicans usually poll one hun- friends 1 demo- republican dred and forty thousand. Butler's claim that he will get seventy thouss eratic votes, thirty-five thousand and thirty-five thousand greenback. pretty liberal figure These are Thr Wearnen A very remarkable change the rie conditions that was over pressure was withi the luke regions on Friday. and Jamaica has prevented the | almost desolated a por | houses were swept out to sea and many | it will be | Prosy Preachers and Sleepy Sinners. To look over the congregation of an average church and note the bowed heads and closed eyes which are so numerous that the devotional feeling is particularly strong in the United States, So fervent | does it seem in some men that they are not * | diverted {rom it by the buzzing of the per- | sistent fly of the late autumn nor by the approach of the collection basket, nor even by the desperate wriggling of their own children who sit beside them, But if the observer maintains his watchfal gaze throughout the service he will discover that as the time for closing approaches the wife or child of the abstracted man, or, per- haps, a kind-hearted neighbor, indulges in sundry sly shakes and pinches and rib | proddings, and that when the subject | of these attentions is finally aroused he starts suddenly, instinctively rubs his eyes and then opens them, showing in every way to the initiated that he has not been prayerfui or contemplative but fast asleep. It is very deplorable that miserable sin- ners should take more naturally to somno- lence than to sermous; but there must be some reasons for the preference, and it does not necessarily follow that they are all to be traced back to natural depravity. If a ser- mon were to be taken as a penance, and the same were distinctly stated from the pulpit, itis probable that most prudent sinners would listen wakefully to the end; but no preacher, however modest, will admit that his sermons are prepared for any such pur- pose. ‘hey are devised as moral or spirit- ual instructions and exhortations, The up- lifting of man’s better nature is the excuse for their existence. Most men and women of religious tendencies are supposed to pray for themselves; but preaching, cither by way of warning or diversion, is, with other duties specially churchly, confided to cler- gymen. By sentiment, habit and rule the clergy is committed to the task of expound- ing moral and spiritual truth as it is re- vealed or believed, and thus lifting people at least once a week from the morass to which business cares and household wor- ries reduce the best men and women. ever the reason may be—exacting pastoral | duties, unreasonable requirements on the {ona of parishioners, imperfect mental or- ganization or training, or the lack of time and opportunity for that mental recreation which is necessary to even the greatest minds—be the reason whatever it may, the truth is that the greatness of his topic does not save more than one preacher in ten from seeing every Sunday that some of the strongest pillars of his church ar@also the soundest sleepers. It is unfair to blame the hearers. Men do not sleep at plays, operas, concerts and lectures, no matter | how weary they may be; they remain awake | because they are interested, or at least di- verted. Nor is it fair to say that men are not interested in religion. Man is a sym- pathetic being, no matter how earnestly he may deny it or how assiduously he keeps | his heart off his sleeve, and the sense of being one of a body of people assembled ‘together because of individual hopes, tears, aspirations and needs arouses the sympathies even of professed unbelievers. During singing, prayers or mass no one sleeps; even the children of the congregation behave themselves in a seemly manner. But when the sermon be- gins and for an hour or more a grain of truth is tossed aimlessly to and fro in a bushel of verbiage neither the object of the sermon nor the respect of the listener for subject and speaker can avert listlossness and annoyance. Nor does the mechanical nature of most pulpit oratory help either preacher or parishioner. No sawing of the air into infinitesimal fragments, no ham- mering of pulpits nor any peculiar inftlec- tions of the voice can conceal from hearers the dulness of a weak sermon. The real trouble with most sermons is that the material of which they are com- posed is stretched to the uttermost, whereas the truth and its hearers demand the great- est possible concentration. Men can find religious essays in books ; if they wish to | enjoy oratory for its own sake they seck it in the lyceum; but they require that a ser- great truths or an earnest exhortation to right living. Let it be cither lof these and no one will sleep ts out of a pos- | very low, but when the storm centre reached | the eastern sections of the lake its course was changed frome northeast and the barometer The pressure is low in all the British provi It from Manitoba to the St. Lawrence Valley. is lowest in the latter dist fhe high area continues on the Atlantic coast from Vir- ginia to Florida, In the Gulf, how. ever, the pressure is falling gradually. Rain has fallen in the Middle Atlantic and New England States, the central vall districts and on the Gulf coast. Elsewhere fair weather has prevailed. The winds have been brisk in the lake regions, the Northwest and on | the Gulf ¢ ‘y have been generally fresh elsewhere. Temperatures have risen in the northern Jake region and the Northwest, and fallen in the other districts, It is very proba ble that, although the storm centre has been Gissipated by the continuous inflow of air from the high area on the © again as it moves into the ocean. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy. To-morrow it will be cool aud Jair. wet, it will reorganize | | Catholic Lacordaire. right, one of the most famous characters of | | labor prepare | be full enough of good things to justify the | public in listening to him for an hour or | under the sound of the preacher's voice. | Phonsands of people listened attentively to | Mr. Moody while abhorring his theology | and questioning his methods. hat solid- headed philosopher Ben Franklin admits in | his diary that Whitefield’s sermons affected | him, not only in his heart, but to the ex- treme depths of his very prudent pockets. Numberless Protestants still living have hung in rapt attention upon the words of The late Peter Cart- the great West, drew men of every class to hear him and commanded the respect of them all. Yet neither of the preachers named were model theologians or elegant orators ; they merely said forcibly what they had to say, and though their hearers were oftener punished than pleased they continued to listen and respected the speaker. But if a pulpit orator is going to be pointed he can do so only by being brief. An orator by profession may by months of a single address which shall more; but no pastor who honors number. less drafts upon his time can prepare one, two or three long discourses a week without frequently losing sight of his subject, and effective pulpit speakers, a few geniuses | exeopted, do not attempt it. None of the great Bourdaloue’s sermons consumed half an hour in delivery; neither did those of some of the more famous early English divines. Channing, who was almost wor- shipped by intellectual New England, | preached but for a few minutes at a time, and, though great minds borrowed new so simple that any child could understand it. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, and Professor Swing, of Chicago, draw crowds every Sun- day to listen to sermons not half as long as many under which men sleep in New York, Yet these are preachers of unusual during the sermon is enough to make a | guileless religious sentimentalist imagine | But how is this duty fulfilled? What- | mon shall be either a terse statement of | strength from his, Channing's language was | | the utter absorption of | The camel ability, who could talk well for hours did not good sense forbid, Few of the published sermons of the leading English divines of the present day consume more than a quarter of an hour of the reader's time; yet they, hke all others we have alluded to, have a strongly marked influence upon religious society and the outside world also, With the actual duties of his position clearly defined in his mind, and with that disregard of mere custom which should be acquired and exercised by all men aspiring to lead their fellow beings, the preacher of to-day should determine that form is worth- less compared with spirit, and that sermons should be prepared according to the needs and receptive power of their hearers, in- stead of conforming to the wsthetic tastes of the speaker and tu the models established ina bygone age. Short, simple, strong, straightforward sermons will fill any chureh, even if they are rude of shape and inele- gant of diction, but the sermon of flowing platitudes and diluted truths pleases no one but the scoffer. City Seweruge. The picture recently presented in our columns of the foul surface condition of a large number of the avenues and streets finds its companion this morning in the limning of the state of things a few feet lower down. Bad as is the condition of the streets above ground, that below it is, if possible, infinitely worse. ‘he fetid pools that poison the upper air have, it seems, their counterpart in the regions underneath, which send their vile odors through the sewer openings all over the city. It will be seen that the region in the neighborhood of West 'T'wenty-third street is at present suffering severely in this respect. ‘fhe inhabitants of that portion of the city have for many months been at a loss to account for the deadly odors that im- pregnate tho atmosphere, and it is at last believed that their origin must be looked for in the defective sower- age at that point. ‘The statement of a former Superintendent of Sewers contirms this theory. He says that he supervised some work in that section some years ago, when, in endeavoring to make the proper connections, several detects in the sewerage system were discovered. The Staten Island Mystery. Yesterday it seemed that the remains of the unfortunate woman found on Staten Island had been identified, but later devel- opments have shown that the unhappy father of Annie Hummel was beyond doubt mistaken, and that the truth is yet to be discovered. That the name of the woman and the circumstances under which she met her horrible fate will finally be ascertained is extremely probable. The fact that the victim came from some home or social circle will insure inquiry by relatives or friends, while the publicity which has been given to the horrible discovery on Staten Island will direct attention to the locality and the remains. Meanwhile thoughtful people will note with sorrow and apprehension the moral indications given by the attempts already made to identify the remains, It has been shown that at least two other women have disappeared from their homes because of improprieties like that which led to the death and brutal burial of the unknown girl upon Staten Island, and that, whether living or dead, their Japses from virtue have caused intense misery to those who loved them, while cautious inquiries which unknown persons have made at the scene of the mystery show that the num- ber is greater than has been made public. The, sin and shame and misery thus dimly indicated are not pleasant to contemplate, and while their consequences may not all have been as awful as they were to the un- fortunate whose fate has thrilled hundreds of thousands of hearts with horror, their mere existence is as productive of regret among right-minded people as it is of warn- ing to those who are hovering about the edge of the most dangerous of moral pit- falls, One does not need to walk far in any of the parks on a bright afternoon to discover that the pushers of perambulators and the custodians of small children in general are not agreed as to the duties and responsibil- ities of nurses. DPunch's tunny picture of the nursery maid listening rapturously to the tender words of the guardsman, while the babies are scratching cach other's little eyes out with none to molest or make them afraid, can hardly be reproduced here, our guardsmen being otherwise engaged ; but the ability of some damsels to be- come interested in each other an- swers the same purpose, so far as the nursemaid and the complete freedom and discomfort of the baby are concerned. With due re- spect for the tastes of the nurses it must be admitted that babies have some rights, among which may be numbered suflicient shade to prevent the sun from ruining their eyes, enough of motion to keep them from howling to a degree which compels all passers-by to drop a sympathiz:ng tear in memory of old King Herod, and sufficient personal attention to keep the infants from sunstroke, slow strangulation, rapture and incipient curvature of the spine, one or all of which maladies the unwatched baby seoms determined to bring upon itself, variety of nurse alluded to is very amusing to contemplate, if she happens to be in charge of children not belonging to the spectator; but no mother cares to be her employer. There are other nurses—and, thanks to the mater- nal instincts of woman, their name is Legion—who can be depended upon to treat children according to the requirements born of utter helplessness, and it should be the self-imposed duty of every mother to watch | her children when the nurse supposes them secluded from the parental eye and assure herself that they are properly eared for, The demands made by society upon the time of any lady are exacting and constant, but the strongest of them are feeble com- pared with those which every trae mother will comply with as soon as she under- stands that they exist. Gambetta’s New Departure. Battles in which the offensive is suddenly assumed by armies that wage a detcnsive war have commonly proved the most suc- cessful means of overcoming an invader. He is taken unawares, if the advance is made with skill and audacity ; he is com- pelled to fight on ground with which his foe is more familiar than he is ; and he not only loses all the advantage due to readi- ness and preparation, but that advantage is in the seale against hir. In war this has been for ages a familiar observation ; but it is an clement of strategy equally applica- ble to politics; but there it has not been used as it might be. M. Gambetta is dis- posed to make up for some lost time in this particular. He proposes to defend tne Re- public in France by an sdvance on the camp of the most energetic group of its enemies—the Church party. Hitherto the republicans have quietly awaited the as- sault of the other side. They have looked on at the preparation of deeply contrived schemes against republican. Ministers and against the supremacy of the republican theory, as if they had no concern or interest in the case, and have never stirred a finger till the enemy was upon them. ‘hey have fought, then, not so much for the overthrow of an enemy as for the preservation of @ menaced government, content to let the enemy get away and plan new advances if only they could save the Republic for this time. M. Gambetta seems to have con- cluded that while the Church party as it now exists in France holds together it will continue to be the centre and origin of machinations against the Republic, and hence that the only way to save the Repub- lic from continual assault and danger is to put tho assault the other way and organize active operations against the common enemy of liberal government everywhere. This is a correct theory in politics. Whether it is judicious to apply it in the present case is less certain, for it is difficult to draw the distinction successfally in a conflict of this kind between the Church as it appears in the politics of the country and the Church as the organ of the religious senti- ment of a people ; and though it would be desirable everywhere to so effectually crip- ple the Church as a political machine as to drive it out of politics, yet in France the republican party has an ancient and not satisfactory record in its relation to reli- gion, and that can be and will be revived against it now with damaging effect. Rapid Transit Doctored. There has been considerable rapid transit of opinion in the Grand Jury room and a tremendous collision of doctors, with the result that the Metropolitan Company was not indicted as a nuisance on account of its noise and is not likely to be. The principal ‘nominal opposition to the road consisted‘of, the fumous petition, signed by one hundyed and thirty-five physicians, asking an indictment on the ground of injury to the public health; but when the Grand Jury were ready to consider the question three memorials were presented, containing the signatures of two hundred physicians, and declaring that the road was in a general sense bene- ficial to the public health, and the jurors promptly and sensibly inclined toward the weightier evidence. The points of these memorials were well made. It is undoubt- edly true that the road, by its noise, dirt and cinders, has annoyed many people whom residence or business have kept close to! it; but the greatest good to the greatest number is the aim of all public enterprises, and the rapidity of transit which is necessary to the residents of a city of such peculiar shape os New York is the opportunity it gives for the thinning out of overcrowded neighborhoods, and of establishing homes in cleaner, airier localities than can be found below Central Park—advantages which far more than counterbalance the annoyances to which the road subjects a comparatively small portion of the community. ‘Lhe more rap- idly the road is extended into the extreme uptown districts the greater will be the preponderance of benefit over injury, and the smaller the chance of any succegs- ful attempt of residents immediately upon the line, or of surface road rivals, to annoy the company in the courts. The Bil All readers who have followed in the papers the story of this startling crime will watch with the deepest interest the forth- coming testimony by which the counsel for the defence declare, with an appearance of great confidence, that they can demonstrate the innocence of the accused. If they can prove what they have declared in their opening that they will prove, or if they can | prove the half of it, the acquittal of their client is of course inevitable. No other evi- dence is necessary than that which itis said will be produced from a man who in a boat on the river saw Billings pass up the road toward Washburne was fired. It is said that this witness in the boat distinctly recognized Billings in his wagon, and that as Billings passed him he rowed on, moored his boat and then heard the fatal shot, These are circumstances that it is impossible a man should confuse or place in his mind, unless voluntarily, in any other order than that in which they oc- curred, and if this order of facts can be shown by a trustworthy witness the alibi is unassailable and the accused must be ac- quitted, In that event the Billings case will stand as anew example in criminal history of the fallacies of circumstantial evidence, That Horrid Heater. Cool autumn evenings and mornings have caused many a householder to light a fire in his ‘“‘heater,” which is the general name for whatever warming centre the average dwell- ing possesses, and the heater, in turn, has caused a domestic epidemic of headaches, It has done it every year for overy family that has been within rango of its deoxy- genated air, and it will probably continue to do so until it is retired on account of in- capacity on account of long service ; but it would not be unwise for those who suffer by it.to question whether its peeuliar abili- ties are ofa sort particularly useful to those who hang hopefully about its warm breath. If the average heater were a human being and did halt as much mischief os is now 8 house before the shot | prepared within its brick or iron frame it would deserve opprobrious epithets almost as severe as those which are heaped upon street cleaning commissioners. As a rule no one but the man who sells it can say a good word for it; it usually leaks gas from its joints, passes carbonic acid gas through the cells of its firebox and consumes every particle of oxygen that touches its superheated surface. Besides, it fre- quently sucks into the apartments of the residents some foul air, such as accumulates in every cellar, and nearly always robs its victims, through the lungs which breathe it in, of more life than can be restored by generous food and good physical care. The late Senator Sumner had some fine pictures painted upon wooden panels destroyed by the dry heat of his furnace. If air can be so dry as to suck from wood the little moisture that is in it what hope is there for human lungs? These demoysof the lower regions of the household should receive closer at- tention than they do. Some of them can be reformed by the use of considerable care and water, but many of them should be ex- orcised—that is, destroyed, kicked out. The price of a new furnace, or even the cost of expert counsel on the proper way of warming a house, is not comparable with the aggregate of the doctors’ bills which every year follow the lighting of fires in the basements of most residences, Yellow Fever. Aggravation of the fever rather than the almost hopelessly looked for mitigation is, of course, but the necessary consequence of the return of warm weather, For some days the scourge seemed to touch the Southern cities rather more lightly than before as the weather grew cooler and finer, and the heavy, sultry, stagnant heat of the end of August yielded. But the change was the result of a storm that passed away and carried with it the slight improvement made by the difference of temperature. ‘here has, of course, been no frost yet in that region, and the abso- lute end of this trouble cannot be hoped for till that comes. With the heat that comes upon the heels of a slight allevi- ation the trouble naturally seems to all who have to face it and endure it even worse than it was before the cool spell came. Rel- atively, indeed, it is because it has to be faced with the littie remnant of hope and heart reduced to a lower point than it was. Crime in Cities. If anybody glancing into a hospital should suppose that all the disordered and disabled mortals there to be seen were the habitual residents of that house, reduced to the last extremity by its insalubrious posi- tion and the bad diet supplied to the boarders, that body might justly form the hardest possible opinions of the evil site of the edifice and its bad housekeeping. But there is perhaps no denizen of civilized countries not better acquainted with the relation of the hospital to the community in which it is found than to indulge such a fancy, though popular perception is easily confused on points somewhat related to this. Every great city isto the country that sur- rounds it for some hundreds of miles very nearly, in a moral relation, what the hospi- tal is to the community in astrictly physical relation. If this city could be gono through by a detective as clear. sighted as the angel that wentthrough an ancient very wicked city in search of ten just men there would be discovered a wonderful array of rogues of all degrees, and the Pharisee in the rural districts én the swect little innocent country towns would take advantage of the occasion to point at the great city as a centre of all abominations, But it would be well for this Pharisee to go slowly until he had at least ascertained how many of the hardened wretches found in the city came only a day or two before from his own cosey hamlet. It is an unfortunate condition of great cities that they are easy hiding places, and therefore tempting refuges for all the rural population that has forgotten any one of the Ten Commandments. ‘These hasty and undesirable visits of our country cousins are endured with commendable patience, and we support an enormous police and great prisons for their entertainment ; but, in addition, it is rather hard for us to hear their brothers and sisters at home, who have not yet started this way, declaring that all the scalawags are of our family, not theirs. For Canossa or a Murket. Germany remembers with some tenacity the promise of Prince Bismarck that the government would not go to Canossa, would not go anyhere to find the Roman power and bow down to it, for any reason whatever, much less for the privilege to act on what views it deemed wise in the government of Germany. But the country has had its misgivings in regard to that promise since it was made, and has watched with interest intensified on account of it the attempt and apparent failure to recon- cile the views of the government with those of the ultramontane party in regard to the social troubles and the necersity of re- pression. If Prince Bismarck should make terms with the Papacy in order to avert a danger more imminent than the danger from Rome the act would not be without a flavor of humiliation, though it is always better certainly to do what is right at the time than to sacrifice the right to fidelity to any vaunting pledges made in other cir- cumstances. But there is an appearance in the German Parliament just now thatlends likelihood to the view that the Prince, if he has seemed to go toward Canossa, has in fact not really stirred a foot in that diroo. tion, It may turn out that he has coquetted with the ultramontanes merely to frighten the national liberals, and that he will get from these, if not all that he demands, at least enough to give the governmont ample authority to deal with disturbing elements, In the appearance of negotiations with the ultramontanes the national liberals saw what was possible, and if they are disposed to assume an attitude that will render it unnecessary for the government to seck as- sistance from a party with which it cannot deal without loss of dignity it must be recognized that they are acting ina saga- cious perception of an important oppor- tunity to show that they are not disposed to push a factious opposition to unpatriotic lengths. in Summer and the Almanacs. Our September weather seems disposed to prove this year even more cimphatically than usual that the division of the seasons, as consecrated in the calendars and as rec- ognized in the lands beyond the Atlantic, is not good for this climate. In fact, the alma- nae, as tried by the facts, is the monumental murderer of truth ; for if this sweltering, oppressive, heavy, irrespirable air is not the air of summer what is the use of distin- guishing any season by that name? ‘The division of the year into four equal seasons is a piece of arbitrary folly of the old cal endar makers that is reasonably descriptive in many countries in the temperate zone, but not here, They may give us five months of winter, if they like, and five months of summer, aud one month each of spring ‘and autumn, but the wonderful variation of ou seasons from year to year is the only con. stant fact in their history. We are as likely to have no winter or no summer in any given yoaras to havea year in the recognized style of the almanac. ‘This year the sume mer draws to its close, which may come about a month later than the summer of the almanac, without any mitigation of its tem. perature, and will, no doubt, launch us into the midst of one of the fierce storms from the northwest that are the essence and life of our winter season. Since the Henaup has discovered that all the weather in the world is made on this continent, and that the seasons of Europe are the appearances of this weather mitigated by the passage of the Atlantic, it 1s high time the almanae makers ventured upon a new departure. Pulpit Topics To-Day. ' By a peculiar coincidence Dr. Tiffany and Mr. Lloyd will preach to-day on the same topic—ingratitude, as illustrated by the re turn of the one leper to render thanks, while his nine associates went away without giving it a thought. And bya similar co- incidence Mr, MacArthur and Mr. Affleck will speak about the use or the misuse of wealth, taking the parable of the rich fool aa a groundwork of thought thereon. Mr Rowell and Mr. Hull will also discuss the same subject—namely, the love of God— and Mr. Burch will dwell upon the father- hood of God. The ‘‘converted nun” will give her experiences of convent life to those wha may desire to hear them again. Mrs, Brigham will follow the route of humanity through this world to the spirit land and oi course back again. Mr. Hatfield will discuss the Scuthern pestilence as if it were a dark or mysterious dispensation of Provi- dence. Dr. Abbott will ‘make the hair fly,” so to say, from two mean denomina- tions. Dr. King will manipulate a mean m:n and, if possible, transform him into a great man, Dr. Crook will present Chrise tian manhood as the style for his hearers, and Mr. Davis will explain how the children of this world are their generation wiser than the children of light. Fiery serpents will fly around Mr. McKelvey, but will not hurt him. ‘The verities of religion will be proved by Mr. Pullman, and the contrast between Christianity and infidelity will be made by Mr. Corbit. Mr. Hepworth will review his late vacation religiously and Mz Richmond will tell what he thinks about Christ. Sin and its remedy will be placed side by side by Mr. Martyn; the Church and science will occupy Dr. Newman's at- tention; the law of religious deviine will be explained by Mr. Searles, and the raising of Eneas by Mr. Colcord. Gideon, the de- cided man, will fill Mr. Moment’s hour and thus complete the course. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mme, Anna Bishop sailed for Europe yesterday, Conyressinan Aicxander H. Stephens is improving Lord Napier will returo as Governor of Gibraltar ts October. A Hart county (Ga.) lady 1s the mother of twonty seven obildren, Sir Jonn Campbvoll Brown, C. B., of Eogland, ts at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Chairs of militaty science have boon established at Stuttgart as well as at Zurich, ‘The statue of Sonator Sumner, by Thomas Ball, will arriv Bostoa in a lew di Some of the Scotch people are discussing the quem tion whether It is not better to raise deer. than sheep, Over $100 were recently paid at Brussels for a care rier pigeon, and a second pigeon was for $90, night and willopen the Qatario Provincial Exbibition to-mor- row. Secretary Scnucz left Washington yesterday for Oakland, Md., to visit nis family, and will retura on Tuesday nex’. Ibis true; and tne Hartfora Post recognizes the gravamon. Tho world 15 wicked, Even the Gali Stream has gone astray. ‘The Boston Transcript says that when Koston peo ple tel! you to pool your issues they ark you te “goservoir your divergoacies.”” Upon the tnvitation of a number of prominent citt of Cincinnati Soeretary Cari Scharz will welt that city Sepiember 27, and deliver an address upoa pending financial issues, Goveral Sherman was yosterday at Fort Yama on his tour of inspection with General McCook. Four will be ia San Francisco, He will re turn to Washiogton about middie of October. Goveral Sir Patrick McDougall is expocted to arrive fat Quebec about the ond of tbe month and wil re, main there a short timo before proceeding to Ottawa adminsirator of the go ment until t 20 tague, writes from Loodon, Eugiand, a letter which sho desires made public, thanking his protessional on bohalt of berseit hi rospect shown to bis mem- ory on their thoughtful sympathy for his amily, Potitions asking Matt Carpenter to become Senator from Wisconsin again are #8 tbick asleavos, They ly headod, begging Mr. Senator, We ‘ply, coyiy necepting the nomination, be will put itin a slightly different style of peo mat ip trom tho style in which ‘The Obicago Tribune saye:—"There 18, in the first place, no longer an Itahan opera, The so-called Italian opera is no more Italian than the operas given by the A roupe. There are not a dezen important Italian sing fhe reper. toire is no longer distiactively Italian, The German has broken into It onallsidee. Meanwhile Kuglish ), has the field, altuougn by the more English than Italian ts Theso roles are suggested by a sportem: First—Nevor Joad a gua ina house, as, if you it for @ minute, somo ignorant servant m: handle it to the detriment of herseii, or ot who falisiu ber way, Secondly—Never lot the bam mer down Gpou the copper caps, tor a sudden mova mont will othe apon go off, Thirdiy—Never walk wiih & gun cocked, and never give itto any one to hold, or during luncheon r it against « treo with barrels cocked. Last, not least—Never carry the gub in & direction that, if 1t wont of, i would cause aa acci & biped or quadruped,