The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1878, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD, NEW YORK HERALD vu BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR + TO SUBSE 0 ng their addr pew addre VE DE LOPERA ADA PACE, Subseri forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME SLU AMUSEMENTS UNION SQUARE THE ANDARD THEAT ST. JAMES THEATRE—Tax Bests or FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE—Kino L NIBLO'S GARDEN—Vieitantes GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Ycur, PARK THEATRE—Comrpy or Eenons. THEATRE COMIQUE—Lr 7 LYCEUM THEATRE ACADEMY OF MUSIK BROADWAY THEATRE BOWERY THEATRE NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Trarsep Horses. WALLACK’S THEATRE—Ovn Cree. PIVOLE THEATRE—V ‘TO-MORROW. Morunr AnD Sox, Lost 4 Lavy 1G ANE 1c, Warrcoms, RITANE. yr 3 AMERICAN THEATRE—Vantery, RDEN—Bany Su 0 MINSTRE TONY PASTOR'S WINDSOR TE BROOKLYN PARK TI BROOKLYN ACADE BROAD ST. THEATRE, PHILAL UNION LEA CLUB THEATRE BOOTHIVS THEATRE—Lass or Lownte’s. QUADRUPLE SHE WITH SUPPLEMENT. ~- NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 187s, LUGE RAC PHTA—Hess OPERA JEAN Le Sor. sry “i, The probabilities ave that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly To-mor- cloudy, followed by temporary clearing. row it promises to be slightly warmer and fair, | followed by gradual cloudin Wat Srreer Yesrey —The stock ma ket was fairly tive strong. Gold was y all day at 10013. Government bonds trong, States quiet and railroads irregular | Mone: 1 was easy at 3a 4 per | per cent. AxoTuern Cuarrer in the hi y of Mr. Til- n yesterday. dews tax suit was be Will the volume ever be finished ? income Tne Srewanr Myst than ever. The finding of Dr. Doug’ the Henatp has settled almost the last re- nY is, if possibl denser | by maining “theory.” Tue Quarrer oF American Tusti dence of the snee A MILLION visitors to the fair is a tty good evi- we could make of wn inter- rte national exposition. IvpENDING Deraurre y be interested in knowing that Portugal has determined to send back tous Angell, the abseonding treasurer of the Pullman Car C Ain Crasses in Rome are rejoicing at the escape of King Hombert. At the th service in the American chapel yesterday the attendance was very large. Courretor Mererrr’s Visere to Seeretary She an in se the at estab Custom Hows comfort of some of the gentlemen in tha Jistiment Tne Resvie of t ull contest for the college championship between Yale and Hi vard yesterday shows that however it may with the | Is the legs of Ya the better. Aw INTerrstis “pvinG of the officers of | the National Guard v have conceived the dea ofthe formation of national militia was held yvestere The ject, it will be seen, is | comine number of officers of the regular To Mornow will be Evacuation Day, and the twenty-four young patriots who ‘fit” mto the war of ISL2 will of course appropriately cele- Drate the famous auni ry of the end of British oceupation. The other feature of the | day will be the parade of the Seventh regiment, Ir Is Harory Pronanie that the Board of Aldermen will be se evenly divided in opinion in ri to the pre extension of the Forty-second Street BR 1s the property holders along the route. Aldermen gen: | erally of one way of thinking in the of railroads. nkers of Bulti with the Secretary of wd tor use by the 1 in their rview esterday in re umpt d his replies thereto, will be d with in- terest by ess men Creenbacks, he de i clares, will be taken for duties and reeeived in | payment for bonds, and restunption in this city | means, of course, resumption everywhere, | Wratteen.—The storm centre whieh | over our district on Friday is movi toward Nova Seotia with slightly ¢ ene Strong winds, however tinue on its enster nf western margina, | it is very probable that severe weather | vail over the northeastern coasts for some days. | The depression that extended through the west- | ern districts has organized a centre of distur - | since over the Missouri Valley, which seems | ly to gain considerable cnerg ving ite ward the const. Th we te v the mean in ail distriets | stern Guif coast. Rain has fallen | nthe Middle Atlantic and New I i States | and in the northwestern districts Cloudy | weasher hus prevailed exeept in the coutral vale ley distriets and the Sonth Atlentic and Gulf | States, where it has been genevally fair, The | winds have been brisk over the lakes and on the | Middle Atlantic and New England coasts, brisk | to high in the West and generally fresh clsewhere A rise in temperature las taken place in the Northwest and the Gulf dis triets, Elsewhere it hws fallen, purtienlarly | on the Middle Atlantic const. It ia very | probable that the weather will elear during | today on the Atlantic’ coast, but the temperature will inerease considerably, and it will commence to get clowly again tow | night. Klsewhere is printed the accounts of the storm on the const. Th | in New York and its vicinity te-day will be cool and partly cloudy, followed by temporary clearing. Toanorrow it promises to be slightly warmer aud fair, followed by gradual clouding ; Hédel and Nobeling were certainly | guinary w | against the lite of the German Emperor, | whom they regard as the head and tront of ; Liussia was formerly the only country in | place asa common moderator of imperial | might be looked to for the protection | application | feudal times, and for which political allevia- | electqral law. | change in the body of voters has awakened | a lively interest in what they believe to be | the organs urge this view upon the Vatican; | the organs. | subject to the dictation of the parish priest. | tions of Assassination and the Italian Electoral Law. In the four recent attempts to murder sovereigns is to be seen not merely the re- sults of any one active propagation in the slums of the spirit of savage revenges against the upper world of prosperity ant authority, but the further fact that some one or another propaganda of this nature seems always to haye the attention of the nether | side of life in Europe; that they lap over at their points of contact, and that new po- litical theovies for the murder of monarchs and a new school of reasons fer such mur- dey are fairly on the stage before the adepts of an older school have passed away, Thus the | the German theory that people, as the victims of the order, must protest in a san- y against their sacrifice on the | wry glory. They believe they this protest most effectively product of the social altar of mi can make the military spirit, and they assail him just as the Communards in Paris assailed the column in the Place Venddme, declaredly for the purposes of this protest against glory and victory. It was a good time just then for Frenchmen to protest against vic- tory, and they cast down the column for | that purpose—excepting only Courbet, who ucted conscientiously as an artist and be- lieved the column villanous with respect to art. But Passanante, it appears, comes down from an older school of eutthroats. He is aremote remainder of those Italian reds who believed in assassination not to be used in any mere vague social protest, but as an effective political instrument to clear the way for the universal democracy. He is, in fact, one of that school of revolutionists that burned more charcoal than powder, and used (to make fulminating grenades to throw at Louis Napoleon because he sustained the Pope. Perhaps their theory of regicide commends itself more to the Italian mind, while the one in which the ferocity of the act is softened with a quasi philosophical reason for it finds readier favor in Germany; but the notable circumstance is that one or another notion in regard to this sort of murder is always before the world, and that with variations in opinion as to points of detail the pur- pose aimed at finds favor in all kingdoms, which the occasional murder of the sov- ereign was regarded as a legitimate consti- sc larly classified for education or any personal distinction. Under this law there are about six hundred thousand voters, But it is now proposed to extend the suffrage so as to give a vote to nine hun- dred thousand persons who do not now possess it, and thus to make in all one million and a half of voters. This is the project of Signor Cairoli, who the other day canght Passanante, the would-be regi- cide, by the hair, and held him till he was dragged away. In the new project the Ministry does not abandon the restriction in regard to the knowledge of reading and writing, but lowers the other require- ments. all Italy will be yet very far from universal suffrage, since that would give upward of seven million votes. Naturally the clerical influences will take an active part in the parliamentary conflict on this point, and already they raise their voice in favor of absolute universal suffrage. Undoubtedly absolute universal suffrage would give in Italy a constant Catholic majority, though it has not done this in other nominally Catholic countries. It is even doubtful whether the extension pro- posed might not do this, and the attitude of the Church will make the liberals very wary on this point. It is one of the curiosities of contemporary polities to see an indisputably reactionary Power so urgent for the adoption of an instrument supposed, like universal suffrage, to be a guarantee of progress and freedom, but it may be re- ment will not by a foolish regard to the name of liberality surrender the kingdom into the hands of its enemies, and it is doubtful whether the blow at the King’s life will not completely defeat the project for a more liberal law. Street Cleaning and Its Defi neies. There are great faults in our present street cleaning system. missioners have too many other duties to perform to allow them to devote as much time to street cleaning as the business re- quires, if it isto be conducted with thor- ough efliciency, for the transfer of the duty to other author- ities. It is unquestionably true that a constant agitation of the subject is needed in the press to insure a proper prosecution of the work of cleaning the streets. As soon as the public journals relax their vigilance the street Cleaning authorities relax their efforts, and the business is neglected. A short time ago, when the Henarp made a tutional device. In that country this crime had a natural relation to the structure of the State. here was no political remedy | for abnses; no recognized institution to limit the royal will, and so a limitation was found in the fact that after all the most terrible monarch in the world is human and to be reached with three inches of obe- dient steel. Has the recent frequency in Europe of | appeal to assassination as a political rem- edy any relation to a similar train of thought? All the States of Western Europe possess nominally those limitations on abuses of authority which Russia was con- fessedly without; but are they practically of any more value to the people in the States where they nominally exist than they were in Russia, where they confessedly did not exist when assassination supplied their tyranny Are not all the devices of politi- eal machinery failures in so far as they of the everyday developments people from even common oppressions? Have not the of society under the of economical principles subjected many millions of the people in European countries generally to a condi- tion practically as bad as that they werein in tions afford them no equivalent? People | in the full possession of all political rights, universal suffrage and all else, rise in re- volt nowadays because they are as sorely pressed by the weight of the world above | them as ever. Universal suffrage docs them no good, but affords them the capacity to | do harm. Deputies in Italy will scan very closely, no doubt, this point of the relation to the State of popular troubles in the con- sideration of the proposed changes in the For it is a fact they must already note with attention that the proposition jor a the natural enemy of good government. Papal organs in Italy come forward lustily in support of the newly taken position that the abstention from political activities for- | merly urged npon Catholics was not a per- veanent moral rule, but an expedient adaptal to certain cireumstances, which should now, therefore, be laid aside, as the cirenmstances ate likely to be changed so as to make a change of conduct in this pars ticular a poiat of paramount consequence for the welfare of the Chureh. Ostensibly but it is thought the Vatican first inspired Inasmuch as the agitation thus initiated with regard (o the attitude of the Church has relation to a renewed struggle for power, and has behind it the hope that the government of Italy may once more be con- trolled by the Roman euria, it is of interest | everywhere. It will make a campaign on the proposition for a change in the Ltalian elec. | torallaw. As that law now stands the suffrage is narrowly restricted, and is confined to classes sufficiently enlightened ficiently independent to entertain their po- litical opinions apart from their religious convictions or relations, Nearly all Italy is Catholic, but the voting part of Italy is not or Every Italian citizen twenty-five years old, and who knows how to read and write, is a voter if he pays eight dollars in direct taxes, or pays a rental—which varies in amount with localities upon any premises used for commercial or industrial purposes, or as an atelier in the arts; but these condi- property qualification are not exacted of any persons learned in the lib. eral professions, nor of members of acade- mies or chambers of commerce, nor of pers —= suf. | daily report of the condition of the streets, they were kept unusually clean. Wheh our reports ceased a change was soon apparent in the work of the Bureau, and now we are called upon to renew our efforts in behalf of cleanliness and comfort. Some time ago rumors were current of startling revelations about to be made by the Commissioners of Accounts reflecting on the honesty of the street cleaning man- agoment. The report of these Commission- ers is now published, and does not warrant the statements by which it was heralded. The report affects to find a deficiency be- tween the amount of maierial claimed to have been gathered by the street cleaning carts in 1876 and the amount aecounted for by transportation on the scows and delivery to private individuals for filiing purposes. The inference would, of course, be that the street cleaning authorities paid for a greater number of cartloads of material than were actually received. The figures given in the report itself do not warrant any such conclusion. ‘the full carrying capacity of the carts owned and hired by the bureau is stated in the report to be 11-3 yards. It is claimed that 1,012,000 cartloads were delivered dur- ing 1876; or, at full measurement of the carts, 1,349,333 yards. It is claimed by the Commissioners of Accounts that the scows, #alculating their capacity and the number of their trips, carried away 644,000 yards, aud that 262,000 yards were taken by pri- vate parties. This makes 906,000 yards ac- counted for as disposed of, which leaves 433,333 yards unaccounted for, This de- ficiency amounts to about thirty per cent of the total number of yards alleged to have been delivered at the dumps, according to the number of cartloads said to have been gathered during the year. We fail to find any reason to doubt the honesty of the Street Cleaning Department's returns from this exhibit. In the first | place, it is absurd to suppose that every eartload out of the 1,012,000 claimed to have been taken from the streets was a full load to the utmost capacity of the eart. If we allow that the loads on an average lacked only one-sixth of a yard of being full loads, which is avery moderate esti- mate, the total delivered at the dumps and to be accounted for is 1,181,000 yards, or only 175,000 yards more than is admitted by the report to have been taken by tne scows and delivered to private parties. This deficiency is ® shrinkage of only fif- teen per cent from the full amount delivered at the dumps by the carts, and when it is remembered that the cartloads, besides being shaken down in their passage frem the gathering points to the dumps, are subject to shrinking from the weight of packing at the dumps and inthe scows; that the garbage which is gathered fresh wilts and withers at the dumps and loses buik, and that there is a certain loss in loading the scows, this shrinkage of fifteen per cent is no doubt less than the actual loss. The Dr. Henry R. Wilson, who was somewhat j implicated in the strictures we made the other day in regard to a singular case of sni- cide, has come clearly forth in his own de- fence and has stated the ease plainly from his point of view, but we regret that his statement does not seem to us altogether satisfactory. He regards our opinions on the subject as founded on the false impres- sion that the suicide take poison, We = had impres- sion, No such impression was possible Suicide. v was seen to so stich as printed in all the city papers, and any- | body who read th kn apparently ‘as much about the case as Dr. Wilson, | who saw it. Our observations were based nor of the holders of col- lege diplomas, nor of the world of men simi- sons decorated, on the presumption that the Docter and the | triends had good reason to believe that the | One million and a hilf voters for | garded as certain that the Italian Parlia- | Probably the Police Con:- | Ifso it is a good reason | to anybody who read the reports of the case | of laudanum, and good reasons to believe | that he had done so were certainly before them. On that basis alone there was reason enough to call the police and subject the man forcibly to the necessary treatment. If violence were thus done to the peace of a sensitive young gentleman who had only boasted that he had taken the drug he would thereby be taught the inconvenience | of practical jokes of that nature, but in fact this course might have saved a life, Arrival of the Marquis and the Princess. After a stormy yoyage of nine days the Sarmatian, bearing the new Governor Gen- eral of Canada and his wife, the Princess Louise, dropped anchor yesterday evening in the harbor of Halitaux, Nova Scotia. All on board were in good health, though the Princess had suffered a good deal during | the trip. Sea sickness, however, is soon for- gotten on sight of land, and the welcome which the loyal Nova Scotians are preparing will quickly efface every vestige of the dis- agreeable mid-ocean recollections. Her brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, was there to welcome the Princess and her husband, and in every way that foresight could arrange, steps have been taken to make the moment of their setting foot on Ameri- can soil memorable and agreeable. Last night the town of Halifax gleamed with a general illumination; the Cor- poration addresses are all in type; the triumphal arches are erected; Her Majesty’s subjects are ready to cheer till they are hoarse for Her Majesty’s represent- ative and Her Majesty’s daughter, and the | trained leaders of Dominion politics are all prepared to begin the induction of the young Marquis into his onerous and delicate duties as Governor General. We are glad that in extending a warm welcome to the distin- guished couple we are enabled to observe how auspicious are the surroundings of their arrival. Of course the grand entry into Halifax and the other ceremonies of state and courtesy must be postponed until to-morrow. A day of rest will be welcome to the travellers before commencing the round of fatiguing festivities which the hos- pitality of the Dominion has made ready. That the history of the family of the noble Marquis may be familiar to our readers we present the supplement tothat portion of it which was published in yesterday's Heraty, teaching from the times of Charles I. down to the present day it will be found of the highest interest. { Child-Marriages. A number of Hindoo youths have lately united in an expression of opinion which young Americans might adopt with great benefit to themselves and the race. These boys, all students at Calcuita, having noted the evil effects of marriage at the very carly age at which it isallowed in India, have pul- licly declared their intention to defer the contracting of matrimonial relations until maturity. If the young men of America were to make a similar declaration the ques- tion would hang upon whatever constitutes maturity, and on this subject there is reason for considerable change in the accepted standard. Maturity certainly implies the possession of common sense; but how much sense is there inthe habit, peculiar to young people in America more than anywhere else, of marrying without any provision for the future? Fully nine-tenths of our newly married couples ar¢ dependent upon sala- ried positions which may be lost at any moment or upon trades which any year may become as langnid as many others are at the present time. As for savings, accumulations of previous earnings, upon which to live in case of loss of employment or of sickness, our young people know scarcely anything about them. Love in a cottage is doubtless very delight- ful, but starving in a garret unpaid for is not, and this latter is what a great many loving but rashly married couples are doing at present, according to the visitors of the poor, and, worse still, their misery is being shared by some helpless little beings who had no part in the original blunder. Such ill-considered unions are ‘‘child-marriages” in the worst sense of the term, for years and stature are not the true standards of maturity. Because the law, despairing generally of yegulating the relations of the sexes, im- poses no material restrictions upon marriage of persons of adult age it does not follow that the contracting parties have a right to cast prudence to the winds and make mere inclination the excuse for bringing wretch- edness upon themselves and their offspring, and imposing paupers, vulgar or genteel, upon society. Pulpit Topies To-Day. Church anniversaries are becoming more commou as well as more prominent than they used to be. Beside that venerable church Which last week commemorated the two hundred and fiftieth year of its exist- ence the thirteenth and eleventh anniversa- ries of an Episcopal and a Methodist church to-day appear insignificant. But the little one may yet count a hundred anniversaries, angelistic services are being carried on in many of our churches, notably in Spring { Street Presbyterian and Eleventh Street | Methodist, by Mr. Colcord and Mrs. Van Cott as leaders, The tempeiance cause will not lose ground to-day while Mr. Murphy, | Dr. King, Mrs. Van Cott, Mr. Maslin, Cap- tain Sturdivant and others hold the helm. Nor will New York suffer under the lashes of Dr. Talmage, while Dr. Newman and Mr. Hatfield put into bolder relief the bright side of its life and prove that its darkest is not darker than that of other cities, and Mr. Mickle claims it for Christ, The second | coming of Christ has not lost its influence, | notwithstanding the Prophetic Conference has adjourned. Mr. Kennedy will discuss the premillennarian theory of that event to- | day. The nature and duration of future | punishment is a topic still precious to Mr. Corbit and the general judgment | to Dr. Fowler, The young people will | | | not be forgotten by Mr, Colcord, | | who will tell them how to succeed; | nor by Mr. Sweetser, who will show them | how to profit by mistakes; nor by Dr. Tyny, | | who will address them on the mountains of | | Israel. Disappointed expectations will be- | come realized hopes in the hand of Mr. Me- Kelvey; the chief value of religion will be set forth by Mr. Prilman. salvation by Mr. | | themselves of the lower rate of fare. NDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1878—QUADRUPLE SHHHI--WITH SUPPLEMENT. man had swallowed two ounces and a half | Chambers and heavenly mindedness by Mr. Wilson, ‘Lhe cowardly disciple will be pitied and encouraged by Mr. Adame, the problem of the poor will be solved by Mr. Hepworth, our blessings will be thank- fully received by Mr. Hull, reverence for the aged wili be enforced by Mr. Jutten and the touch that restores will be commended by Mr. W. N. Searles. Mr. J. E. Searles will demonstrate that life may be a success in the midst of earthly failure, and Dr. Hartzell will strike the balance sheet between the gain of the world and the loss of the soul. Mr. Lloyd will dream of two worlds, Mr. Davis will re- preach Christ’s sermon to the woman ‘of | Samaria, Mr. Bonham will talk about Bel- shazzar’s debauch, Mr, Richmond about Joshua and the rams’ horns which did such execution at Jericho, Dr. Tucker will de- scribe the Anglo-Saxon’s influence in India, Mr, Merritt will speak on-music and Mr. Afileck will introduce the woman who buried five husbands. Timely Charity. Although we have been very well treated recently by the powers that control the weather the winter is upon us, and we know not at what moment severe cold may come to pinch the poor and bring additional suffering to those who, at the best of times, have enough misery to endure. It is always wise to be prepared to meet trouble before it arrives, and our various charitable bodies, public and private, should not delay their efforts to secure the means of promptly re- lieving the victims of co!d and hunger be- cause we happen just now to enjoy genial weather. When the winter’s frost and winds are freezing our thinly clad and poorly lodged fellow creatures there will be plenty of work to do in battling with suffer- ing and death without having to search for the weapons needed in such a contest. Charity is never out of place, but it can never be more timely than at the commence- ment of the winter season in a great city where the poor are numbered by thousands and where utter destitution is by no means rare. New York is famous for its churitable institutions, public and private, and for the munificence of its benevolence both toward its own citizens and others who need a help- ing hand. But the needy might be relieved more liberally than they are if our people of wealth and comfortable incomes would reflect on the great necessity of aid to the destitute before the matter is drawn to their attention by severe weather and urgent ap- peals. Many persons can afford to give a little money at a time in charity who are not in a condition to contribute large sums when an emergency arises, and if such of our citizens would subscribe betimes to funds for winter relief they would accom- plish much good. The Chicago Scandal, In spite of occasional ugly rumors of ir- regularities in the construction of govern- ment buildings there is something startling in the natureand gravity of the indictment made yesterday by a United States grand jury in Chicago. ‘The public has been un- willing to believe that any one in official position has profited by the government's manifest losses in the construction of some buildings; but the indictment, which is for conspiracy leading to frauds amounting to nearly a miilion dollars, implicates the present Supervising Architect of the Treas- ury Department and his immediate prede- cessor. As these official have had almost unlimited control of the many costly public buildings in course of erection a charge of dishonesty in a single case is an implica- tion of probable fraud in all and the possibility of enormous losses to the government and the taxpayers. But the financial aspect of the case is inferior in importance to that of official honesty. The position of supervising architect of all national edifices, though of no political im- portance, is one which any citizen should be proud to fill and one competent to hand its occupant’s name in honor down through all the generations which shall behold the work of the architect's hand and brain. To prostitute it to purposes of dishonest gain is to take rank among the lowest scoundrels who have made public trust the means of attaining rascally ends. If the accused persons are proved guilty: no legal jugglery or political trickery should be allowed to sereen them from the severe punishment which is doubly earned by theft and dis- loyalty. If innocent, as they claim to be, and the victims of partisan conspiracy, the public will learn of a new and peculiarly virulent species of political reptile. Cheap Fares ani The promised speedy extension of the rapid transit roads cannot be carried out too speedily to suit the people. The full benefit of rapid transit will only be felt when we have continuous lines along the entire extent of the east side and west side routes. The completion of the branch from Chatham square to the City Hall, on the New York Elevated road, will accom- modate many thousands of persons whose places of business are in the neighborhood of the Post Office. When the rcads are completed we believe that it will be found greatly to the profit of the companies, especially on the Third avenue line, to reduce the fares to five cents to Sixty-seventh street and six conts to Harlem. We believe that morethan double the traffic could be secured on that line at the lower rate of fare. Passengers going short distances in the slack hours of the day wonld take the elevated road if the fare were five cents when they will not pay ten cents, In the five cent hours, between five and seven P, M,, the cars are so crowded that many persons are deterred from going on them and prefer the delay of the strect railroads to the tush on the elevated. ‘Lhe overcrowding is due to the fact that three hours’ travel is packed into two hours ; that | isto say, persons who could leave their business at half-past- four or remain until half-past seven now wait till five o'clock or hurry away before seven in order to avail It the fare were five cents all the time the travel now jammed in between five and seven o'clock would be spread out from half-past fonr to half-past seven or eight o'clock, and there would be no such incon- venient crowding at any hour as at present. Of covrse an enternrise which has vielded such veluable advantages and such great accommodation to the people ought to be made remunerative, But we really believe that the east side or Third ayenue line would find it to the company’s pecuniary benefit to reduce the fares as we have sug- gested, Converted Cannibals. A very brisk bit of religious history ap- pears in another column, the leading characters consisting of some New Britain savages and a determined missionary. Some natives of the island named became incensed at the whites, apparently because of a fight with a crowd of sailors, so they proceeded to avenge themselves on the racé by attacking a small party of missionaries and native teachers, killing and eating several of the number. According to long established precedent the remaining mis- sionaries should have passively submitted to the same fate or any other that the savages chose to prepare for them; then some civilized nation would have conquered and annexed the island, killing off, with vices peculiar to civilization, the naives who escaped the military or naval force sent against them. But the manager of the missions took the matter into his own hands; arming his own little party and taking with him ¢ number of friendly natives, he fell upon the cannibals, killed a large number o: them and compelled the remainder tc apologize. His method may not meet the views of the missionary society that sent him out, but, as for the results, it is ex- tremely probable that fried missionary will hereafter be an unheard of delicacy among the New Britain bon vivants, and that preachers of the Gospel will be regarded with that peculiar respect that is every- where accorded to men who know how to take care of themselves. An Emotional Drama. An excellent illustration of the emo- tional drama and its possibilities was given in our sketch of ‘The Cracksman’s Bride” yesterday morning. The woman who was the subject of the story claimed, appar. ently with good cause, to be well born, carefully bred, refined and honest, yet ac- cording to herself she is a burglar’s compan- ion, a counterfeiter’s wife, and in every respect an alien from good society. Her description of the manner in which she reached her present surroundings is plausi+ ble ; a fate like hers may easily be reached by a woman who commits no sin whatever, and whose every intention and act is prompted by pure motives. What, then, was it that dragged this woman from a virtuous home to the society of outcasts, and that may do for other women all that it has done for her? Her story answers the question ; an uncontrolled emotional na- ture is to blame for all. Strong feelings, no matter how honorable in themselves, can cast any one down from any social or moral height unless they are under the control and guidance of that prudential sense which is as much a part of every one’s birthright as the emotional nature is. et, yomanee, poetry and the drama are con tinnally stimulating the emotions, and justifiably, but they too frequently tail to say what is told in this story and thousands of its kind, and with a distinctness that ia terrible, that the feelings are insufficient o1 themselves to make any life complete, suc« cessful or even dumbly happy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr, Evarts’ sentences are now measure i, Evening Telegram:—“What Gambetta said—Pistols, Fourtou!’ "The Oneida Community picked 7,550 bushels of ape ples this year. Ex-Seeretary Bristow has become the counsel of the Sprague creditors, A Boston man propounds the conundrum :—“Is Ale exander H. Stephens conceited?” ‘The Buffalo Ezpress is authority for the statement thut even liltle baseball pit hers have ears. Boston J’st:—“Chin Lan Vin has a Chinese paper sent to him regularly. It isa little paper of Pin's.”* At the Lord Mayor's dinners the allowance of green turtle for soup is six pounds live weight for each person. Colonel Forney in his new paper uses the pronoun “T" instead of “we.” It is pleasant to have him say “Luns" for “we-uns. If Mr. Kearney were only yood, and if he only hired his adjectives from the right dictionary, he inight be Talinage’s successor, ‘The Chicago Times miserably insinuates that Schurz did not succeed as a general, because whenever be wore a sword his legs got tangled up with it. General Butler is said by some of his admirers to have more “patriotic music” in him than ever, He must be singing “The Sorehead of Bunker Hill.” “There is no mistaking a real gentleman,” says the ‘New Orleans Picayune, “When he approaches a free lunch table he always wants @ napkin and a chair,” ‘There lives in Franklin county, North Carolina, » man forty-nine years old who never heard a sermon preached, never read a chapter in the Bible, never fired a gun, aad never saw a white man married, An item of news concerning a murder in Nevada begins:--"‘As the victim was at the pump taking @ drink of water he was shot down.” Now, this item is false on the face of it, No Nevada man was ever known to take a drink of water. Dayton Journal: neral Joseph E. Johnston, the famous ex-rebel commander, is urged by the New Orleans Democrat for the chairmanship of the Hoase Military Committce in the next Congress, This pro- motion, it is believed, would help to make the South very solid.” Rome Sentinel: —“The question which now agitetes the mind of the young man of the period is whether he will buy an amethyst ring worth $175 for # Christmas present for his best girl or put hereof with a fifteen cent diary for 1879. ‘The present out look is favorable to the diary.” Johnny Ah Yu, a vlushing Chinese dameel, alleged to be the wife of Quong Ben, of Sacramento, recently eloped with Me Sing to San Francisco. She was re turned to Sacramento on @ fictitious charge of ber glary and her husband has now sold her to a Ching man of Chico for the paltry #um of $450. Burlington Mawkeye:—"An indignant correspond ent writes to say that the newspapers are badly mis tuken if they think Mr. Kearney is a useless: man, We never said he was. We have always maintained . | that Mr. Kearney could be of the greatest use if hit We think he woule abilities were properly applied. make good mulching for young fruit trees,’ Saturday Rev “Life, for the rank and file in the hosts of great commminities, must move with the unva rying regularity of and its periods of dsily rest, or of the brief relaxation of infrequent holiday, are for most men closely limited as to their enjoy- ment by conditions of time and of means, The eraly experience of being thrown on personal resourses, and of being taught to find pursuits and interents within available reach and accessible always, if @ better discipline in view of such a fature than the constant gratification of a restlos craving for novelty and change; and the much pitied, if somewtiat imaginary, duluess of acountry home in the winter may have ite advantages forthe younger man jost starting for the race of life, as well as its charms for the older inmates, who little tired after years.of work and whe welcome the reat which it aifords.’”