The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1878, Page 6

6 “TOUCH NOT. TASTE NOT} Murphy's Farewell to the Seventh i Street Church. MEETING AT COOPER INSTITUTE. Er tA ir Oa The Cause of Total Abstinence Advocated } in the Pulpit. Aversa tae At the afternoon meeting, which was Mr. Murphy's farewell to the Seventh street Methodist Church, at least for the present, the edifice was crammed from the altar to the doors. ‘The temperance reformer’s appewrance was the signal for great | applause, and as he walked@hp the aisle he shook | | hands right and left, as is his custom, and on reach- ing the tabies where the reporters sit he warmly greeted oue whose face he had not seen before. “You have a touch of the brogue, I see,” said the reporter; ‘I'm Irish myself.” “Arrah, now you're whpakin’ me boy!” he laughingly replied, and imme- @iately ascended the pulpit. The Wilsons sang “Ave your windows open toward Jerusalem?” after which Mr, Murphy invoked God’s spirit and read the | Bermom on the Mount, commenting on it as he went | along in As he would | becasionully notice a familiar face he would call out:— “Come right up in front, Captain.” Johuny’s on hand.” “f Mr. Acres, I would be glad to see you ut this end of the house, if you please,” his chara eristic manner. TEMPERANCE AND RELIGION. After singing by the choir the Rey. Mr. Gilder, Pastor of the church, announced that the church ‘would be closed in the evening, when, he hoped, all of the congregation would attend the meeting at the Ovoper Institute; but that temperance meetings would be continued during the coming week. He also stated that twem men who had signed the pledge came forward last,Sunday and tweuty eight yesterday desiring to become connecté with the Church. Mr. Murphy was rejoiced and s that it reports could be had from other churches throughout the city some idea of the magnitude of the work would be obtained, Chauncey Shaffer the came forward and said he had a statement to mak These mectings had been carried on in the chure for three weeks, and they had depended entirely on the public tor pecuniary support. There had been no subscriptions, He kept the immense congre tion in roars of laughter with his subsequent re- marks :—‘I never got very happy on figures. Arith- | quetic isn’t equrl to Wesley or Witts. I never wanted to speak so much in my life. Thix has been a xreat missionary week for me. Twelve foreign | missionaries beve gone abroad, not sent exactiy | by me, butdrom: the wharf after visiting my hous The foreign missions are doing a great work; b there’s a great work to be done here in New York, | und if it wasn‘t for the great regardI have for the heathen up in YThirty-fourth street I wouldn't let Mr. } Brother Murphy go away from Seveuth street.” Bhatfer then read 4 statement, showing that the t | receipts during the three weeks had been $412 Sv, and | that they were oui: just $54. i TAKING A COLLECTION. | | It was proposed thet an appeal be made to the con- gregation, and uskers be appointed to go through the aisles and receive donations, the mover of the propo- | sition saying “J’m a poor man ‘and will give $2 to start it w Mr. Shaffer said he would give | $2 more, and on nome one saying, loud enough to be | heard, “Only $2 from Chauncey Shaft he cried | out, “There’s no limit to this thing; there's no one | can stop me from giving more if I want to, except my | wife—and she won't.” Then subscriptions of every | | vonceivable amowat less than $10 were announce “Five cents is rainc 3 “Bouquet Johnny gives $1. down from the gaile ‘That all he’s ullowed to If we’ let him, he'd give away all he has.” "and so on till no more were forth- roming. stated thet Brother Murphy did not come to New York to put money in his purse the charch fairly ang with applause, and again when Mr. Shatter, on behalf of the trustees of the Seventh Street Methodist Church, presented Mr. Murphy with & receipt in full for the rent of the Cooper Union Hall. “DERTS MUST BE PAID, Mr. Murphy responded in modest terms. He said he did net want to mlk about money, but every man ‘who wants to be respectaole must pay his debts, and he cannot pay his debts in prayers or cheap words, “All I want is subsistance. “I subsist largely on what Text, and pay my doctor's bills to the butcher. Every man who works should have tood and clothes.” He poke of the great interest in New York in the cause of temperance, and as he wished every man Godspeed he could not see why others could not do the same by him. Quite a dramatic scene was enacted when Mr. Murpey turned to Mr. Shaffer and said, “in the new field of my labors, brother, L want to see you,” and they locked arms and embraced. ‘And I want to see | that sainted wife ot yours.” “That's where you're right; I don’t blame you a bit,” replied Chauny, amid roars of laughter. The meeting closed with a wumber of five-minute speeches. THE EVENING MEETING. The meeting held last night in the Jarge hall of the Cooper Institute for the benefit of Mr. Murphy and those who compose his party was in every respect successful. ‘The hall was packef with an audience as misceTianeous as ever gathered within its walls. Ladies 4 silk and satin found themselves beside recently reformed drunkards, bearing the marks of long and ficep dissipation; and the “gentleman of the cloth’ | was crowded by one who, by his own confession, hdd graduated through every phase and degree of crime. “Boquet” Johnny was resplendent in a new suit of Blotlen, and from a seat on the edge of the platform dispensed “‘buttonholes” to the mem- bers of the press with great unction. Mr. Thur- low Weed an his sister occupied a prominent place on the platform, and were loudly applauded when they entered. Mr. Chauncey Shaffer opened the meeting in a few remarks, and was followed by the Rev. Mr. Gilder in the reading of a chapter of | Beripture and prayer. ir. and Mrs. Wilson sang | tHe Will Hide Me" with fin and were encored. | harye of the meet- te Jolonei Colwell, of the Rathbun Hotel, in Eimira. facetious iv his remarks, and con ing that if a man knew how to he supposed in these days of oratory he ou; able to make a fiye minutes’ speech, which wae the time Brothe-Murpiy had allowed him. He then told how, under the intluence of Mr. Murphy, he constrained to ive up the sale of liqnor in his ho’ Bnd made un earnest appeal to the people to support the reformer in his work in Kew York. Mr. Thomas Pittman was intro- fuced as “Judge Pittman, the golden mouthed.” He made an excellent’ speech, picturing the Wwene in acourt when the wretched the ragged | sre brought to tae bar, charged with drunkenness. “But,” he said, ‘“chere is no inan so low, no man so degraded, but be has an angei within bim, and that lean be saved.” Professor Evans, of Pittsburg, M angel ¢ hold how two yews uaded by ter Was V Murpiy to sign the simply because he | preached the doctrine of love. He was a living ex- | pmplar of the subj-igation of an immoral will. Mn. When Mr. ™ time to make au MULPHY'S ADDRESS. came forward for the second ess he did not seem himself at t he was not th chapt First Corin , and ssid that the whole theme r of wae werey, because he | In homely terms he told amaritan, an‘ said there 9 fellows Who crouse man sick by the roaduid th bt the good D poole like th y and you come to practice the Chr y of the Samari- | fan you will have able ng wen. It is | true men must be lcld responsible, but when you see # him to & man ruined rome bac put your fo er be Christ is our pattern, and w tie exauple set by him. And when you ta the yreat sin of intempersaoce remeniber that there | gre other Kins ae great. Let them that gamble, gamble no more, burn up your cards and thro Bway tie dicebox. Don't sign tho pledg a then join « elub, Stu at home and quainted © with your ily. Mr. Mury told several anvedot ed “to ave r apparent indiaposition which had He related the story of his imprisoun the tender and snecessful ministrations of bis wife aud children while he was in durauce. He conclude with a sticring appeal to come forward and sign the | pledge. Crowds pressed forward, and those in charg ot the pledge cards had all they couid do to supply the demand MERTING AT COOPER INSTITHTR. Under the auspices of the National Temperance In- | : was stitute a meeting of temperance people beld in the afternoon in the Coeper bite main hall, J. B, Gibbs presiding. tendance was large. peoupied by ladies. A few hymns having been sung fo the accompaniment of # harmoniwn and led by Mr. John A. Mitthauer with his silver cornet, # pealra ‘was road and a prayer offered by the Rev. William 2. Ailleck. warks on the success of the Francis Murph tor ail of whieh, he said, every temperance aman Ought to feel grateful and proud. There should be bo qharrel among the workers im the icmpprance | cause, ‘Che newspapers of that day announced the fall of ove of the mighty in the work, and every rom peiler ancl every tippler was rejoiving, but the greates ° moutings, “Ah, Boe sapescrye | i Mr. Mullin, and prayed that God might sustain | nig! | Yival at the Ludlow Street Church. | the scum of the city, as they were brought in. The platform was mostly | 4 ‘The president made some introductory re- | * NEW YORK HERALD, was the need for harmony among workers that the attacks of the enemy might prove of no ayuil. The first adl@pess was made by the Rey, William B. Affleck, vy ral and xppropriate stories, mg “neattering Seeds of was encore, Anna Kandall Miss Crwiy ny Mrs. Dr, 4, W, Samson spoke next and referred to idea of Gustave Doré, im which the artist rej ated a number of cupids as having become intoxi- cated from the fumes of wine, ‘and then fell to be the associates of reptiles, ‘This idea was found in Ho- mer, again in Virgil, later in Shakespeare, and at times broke out ip myson's verses. In the eighth or ninth century the Arabs found out that there was poi- son in wine.” They called it “alcohol,” which means autimony, the most subtle of poisons. The artists of té-day are aheadof Christians and the physicians in unyeiling the effect of this poison, Michael An- gelo and Kaphael understood it, and Cruikshank developed it with “his pencil, and in kis life showed how deeply he appreciated the danger of the wine cup. Solomon tells us not to look at the wine in the wine cup, for, sparkle as it may, it will bite in the end like a viper. The president announced that b) request the “Sweet Dy and By’ would be sung, and the entire audience joined heart in the song. Miss Bertha Reynolds, of Syracuse, Y., mext gave u recitation deseriptive of the wrecks that the potent make, and bei recalled gave Longfel- Legend of the Angel of Prayer.” AMERICAN BANCR UNION, The meoting of the American Temperance Union at Clarendon Hall, Rast Thirteenth street, yesterday afternoon was unusually lively and the audience was larger than on previous Sundays, possibly owing to the publication of the hostile meeting between the President, Mr. William H. Mundy, and his brother lawyer, Mr. William Mullin, an account of which was published in yesterday’s Hrxatp. After the meeting was opened by the president Dr. Richards read @ passage from the Scriptures, and when he had concluded Mrs. Van Cott arose aud offered a fervent prayer, in which she alluded to the re- of the encounter between Brother Mundy the former in his conflict with those whose deeds were of darkness, It was clear, she said, that the enemies of the temperance cause were the avowed enemies of Mr, Mundy, and Lawyer Mullin was the ayent in a legal capacity of ,the liquor dealers. The enemy had become desperate, and it behooved every triend of the temperance cause to arm and do battle th those who are laboring day and night for the destruction of our people. Mr. D. I. K. Ryan, of Canada, then gave an account of the progress Of (he temperance cause in that coun- try, where, he said, great reformation had been eawekened much humor by his defini- miner,’ who, he said, Was @ most valua- a ed. tion of a ‘bu ble adjunct to ‘the ginmill. ' He is worth a great. deal to the rumselicr. He “doubles ap the drinks, and has never been known come along. He is to parcel of the estab- habit, it becomes to refuse, no matter who m: all intents and purposes part and lishment, and, after long acquire | his home.” The speaker then pointed the moral by that if such a human being could be of so mueh valne in the cause of evil how much more valu- able would he be as an agent of righteousness? To this la end, he contended, al! zealous workers in the cause of temperance should devote themselves. DEGRADATION AND REFORM. Professor Bentley sang “Where Is My Boy To- * and Mrs. Van Cott then took her place at the deck and gave w long account of her labors in the re- She mentioned the case of William Wirt, once Attorney General of the United States, and afterw: candidate for Presi- dent, who becamé a confirmed sot, she said, because the lady be loved rejected his suit. But seeing him once, greatly intoxicated, and remembering some of his finer traits, she had her handkerchief passed to b He paused, and as svon as his eyes caught the name on the handkerchief he was so moved that, drank as he was, he became from that day a convert to temperance, Mrs. Van Cott hoped abl the good workers in the cause of temperance would meet be- yond the river, and to that end she asked her oe jer to sing, “Shall we meet beyond the river?” The lady complied, and sang very sweetly. ington, who done some excellent ry work slong the docks in this city for y-five years past, then related his experience among ‘lougshoremen, sailors, coalheavers and others of that clase, Mrs. Dr. Somerby spoke ou the great influence that woman could exercise in the temper- auce cal aud exhorted her hearers to reucwed efforts in view of the artifices recently resorted to by the liquor dealers and their agents. in this connec- tion she mentioned Mr. Mundy’s misadventure, and said that before a week had elapsed the case would be set right. After singing the doxology the meeting diapersed. THE DARK SIDE OF LIFE. Rey. Dr. Harcourt, in the Trinity Methodist Epis- copal Church, York strect, Jersey City, last evening, preached a Gospel temperance sermon, tending to show the dark side of city life. The church was crowded, The preacher announced his text from Luke i., 79;—'To give light to them that sit in dark- ness and in the Shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” He said that cities were the great centres of good and evil; they are to the nation what the heart and lungs are to the body. They are generally the strong citadels of the prince of darkness. His friend over the water, the Rev. Dr. Talmage, had been preaching for some time on the dark side of New York lite; but he thought from his sermons that Mr. Talmage had not seen the dark side—he had only seen the tinselled, gilded and fancy side, By some it is called the joyous side. Accomp by a friend, said Mr. Harcourt, a few days ago I visited a New York hospital and was made acquainted with Dr. Hemingway, the medical examiner in charge. Dr. Talmage should have been led to that side of New York life. Isat im the hospital for two hours and I saw some of the poor humanity, I said to myself, “This is the only place where a view of life's dark side ean be had.” From that office we went to the deadhouse and there gazed upon the forms of weurly twenty fallen creatures, cold in death, Bloated faces aud worn, emiciuted frames, told the story of the terrible lives of which that scene was the exd. The doctor informed me th seventy-five per cent of the cases brought u notice in the hovpitals were the result of iftemper- ance. In view of this terrible statement is it to be wondered at that I am waging war against rum, For every church — fighting against = rum th are tweaty-eight rum palaces in fi of it. They are at work seven days in the week, while we work against them only one, This should bechanged. The work sbould be kept up continually, Whea the church ceases the world is lost, The ram- sellers make their places attractive and they reduce their prices to induce men to visit them, Signs are tound outside their doors represent- ing @ glass overflowing with lager, with the ds, ‘A schooner tor five cents.” They are called schoo because a wan after drinking one rolls like a schooner on the water, In New York I saw a sign, “\ schooner for three cents,” the more poisonous it i yolves upon us to banish it from our midst. pray Jesus to give us strength to succeed, and the more work de- Let us THE TWO M's. LAWYER MUNDY'S SUNDAY REPLY TO LAWYER MULLIN—HE SAYS MULKIN TELLS A “VILLA- NOUS LIN,” AND MAKES A FEW BEMARKS ABOUT HIM GENEGALLY. Mr. Willism H, Mundy, the temperance apostle «who was sought for in vain on Saturday evening by a Heracp reporter, who wes anxious to get his views of the scrimmage that took place between limselt and Lawyer Mullin, on Friday, rose bright and early yesterday morning, refreshed himself with » glass of cold water and called for the Henao. Tie re- ligions page, as usual, bad an ineffable charm for him, and its soothing influence prepared him to bear with Christian equanimity the perusal of Mr. Mullin’s story of the way he “thumped” the anti-liquor advo- After reading it Mr, Mundy called for pen and paper end wrote o letter tothe Hxnary, After de- nouneing Mr. Wullin's version of the little unpleas- antness as @ anous lie,” he tells his side of the cuse as follows in the letter :— MUNDY'# VERSION OF THE ROW, The facts are theve:—Jobn P. Victory appeared for ove Walker im a suit under the Civil Darnage Act some eighteen months ago in Richmond county, I appeared for the plaintiff, Caroline Peterson, @ poor wowan, who said Walker had wronged her by selling her husband liquor when he (We cr) kuew she was suffering on account of her husband's habit of drink- ing. L appeared without any fee, because of the woinau's appoal to help her. I gots verdict of $400 against Walker, He appealed, Then Mr, Victory cate, appeared for Walker on the appeal. Vending the ap- peal Mr. Victory left for parts unknown (at least so £ ain info One Williom “Mnlkiu, whom T hed ti in mut 0! f appearance f law. In the meantime Walk 1 one Tom rett, a police justice of kichmond county, and he, a8 he suid after. ward, “to please the Mquor dealtrs,” isened a warrant tor the a; est of the Rev, Hiram D, Opdyke nspiracy” in bringing this civil wait, He raid he “didn't care a damn whet lence was,” and held us to bail in $1,000, Barnard, of the SYnpreme Court, rendered his ced th ut outrage.” z ent against Mes. Peterson by do- id the lov] papers hud the news sent to them and blazed the “yietory of Cotnsellor ones siullin.” Linoved to vaeete the judgment and suc- ceeded, That's the way he “won” the snit. subsequently appeared in another suit, Pratt dismissed the complaint on a he raised himself, Mullin tucked into of costa some drew thud in, to suit bimwelf, Jude formed, that he had $40 that he was not entitled f fact and coucinsious of law att told Mullin, ae Tam in nfidence in them, but it I did not object he wonld sign them. [did object and the Judge was to resettle tuem on Saturday last. He tuld me to ave Alr, Mullin come over with me, I The cheaper the stuf | asked him to do so, He swelled up and said he “did not care what Judgo Pratt said, he took his acts.” ‘The time to serve a notiee of resettlement for Satur- Mullin knew it. Deceived and mduct, Esaid coolly, “Well, six, C6 & piece of sharp practice and shystering.”” horrible oath and a grossly Vulgar ox- With a pression, he sprang at me when amy back was turned and struck me in the back of the head, Then he threw his arms «around my body and pushed me, striking two or three times. Some one seized him and told him to stopand I walked ‘out of the oflice. He had repeatedly resorted to sharp wactice before and I was provoked at him, As to the ance of his story, it is utterly and absolutely false am every particular. Idon’t kuow Mr. Finndinch. I never saw him to my knowledge. It isa lie out of whole cloth, One Judge of the Supreme Court ac- cused Mullin of lying, and another said certain of his acts were ‘mean.’ This story caps the climax.” NO SIGNS OF WOUNDS, Mr. Mundy was met last evening by # Henan re- ho was somewhat astonished to see him His eyes had @ cloar temperance seemed to give the lie direct that the apostie takes or seven drinks a day." There was no sus- ns swelling about the lett optic which Mr, Mullin Javed be had reached for successfully on Friday, and no evidence whatever that he had stopped over night in a hospital. ‘on don't look as if you had been ‘thumped,’ ” remarked the reporter, No, 1do not,” replied the apostle; “Mullin’s ver- sion of the difficulty is an infamous He,” and laugh- ing pleasantly he added:~-“But the atiair is not to eud just ye “Pistols and coftee for two?” queried the reporter. ‘Oh uo; nothing of that kind,” was the answer. “That is not the Way1do business, Iam aman of @, aud Muilin’s conduct toward me was simply ufamous. As to that six or seven drink business T don't think anybody who knows me will believe a word of it,”” * “But the liqnor man says he knows you well.” The fact of his saying that I drank at his place shows that he does not. I don't know the fellow from « side of sole leather. Ihave a brother wl occusioually goes into his place, and that’s the way the mistake has oceurred,”” Judging from Mr. Mundy’s manner while speaking of Moulin and his “‘tindings of bail,” the liquor dealers of Staten Island will have a hard road to travel if they expect to defeat the temperance apostie by bluff and derision. He be Hera ly. means busi- ness, and somebody will get hurt before the cold weather sets in, AMONG THE CODFISH. VETERANS OF ‘THE HOOK AND LINE OUT FOR A DAY'S WORK ON THE CHOLERA BANKS—THE FUN THEY HAD AND THE FISH THEY CAUGHT. A codfishing party, over eighty in number, started off in the Seth Low yesterday morning early to try their luck in the blue waters covering the Cholera Banks, Most of them were veterans and enthusiasts, who would rather land a twenty pound cod than dis- MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1878—WITH SUPPLEME FINE ARTS. THIGTY-SEVENTH SEMI-ANNUAL THE BROOKLYN “TATION—THE PLAY OF PICTURES WHICH WILL BY SEEN AT THE OPENING RECEPTION THIS EVENING. The thirty-seventh reception and opening of the nineteenth fall exhibition of the Brooklyn Art As- sociation will take place this evening at the Art Building and adjoining Academy of Music. On Wednesday morning, to-morrow being ‘Members’ and Artists’ Day,” the exhibition will be opened to the pudlic, admission free, as usual, and will revain open for iwo weeks, The present display is composed of about ay many pictures as that of last spring, though a larger number have been reiused, ‘There are few new pictures of any impertauce in the collection, and we recognize a number of old friends from the last academy. The amount of poor work which should have been refus@d admission is, as usual, very notice- able and «good deal of itis on the line. The prin, cipal room is the gullery of the Art Association and in the assembly voom of the Academy the water colors, black and whites, a fow etching», some of the oils anda creditable collection of studies, in black and white, by the students at the polytechnic have been hung. On entering the association gallery we turn, as usual, to the left, and find on the second line one of the best pictures in the exhibition, a little landscape by H. Bolton Jonés, It is full of air, strikingly real, well drawn and true if somewhat hard in color. Near it is noted a little child and duck story by J, ©. Thom, pleasing. in sentiment and color but lacking in careful study or evidence of other than hasty work. If Mr. Thom were to turn out fewer pictures with amore serious work in them he would sell better and have a higher reputation. On the line is a little head by Miss Jacobs, and above a large marine by John A. Parker, with a fair sky,'the rest being weak and wishywushy. A little E. L, Durand—*A Sketch on Staten [slaud’’— attracts attention from its light and air and pleasing crisp color. In the northwest corner we are glad‘ to see Henry A. Loop's lifelike portrait ot » lady, with good color, much expression and a well treated cos- tume, On the north wall we first notice a little nude by Y. Stiepevich, which displays considera- ble cleverness. The face and pose are good, as is the modelljng of the up- per part of the body. The jewelry is in bad taste and gives a cheap look to the picture. By this are some fiowers vigorously touched in by Charles H. Miller, above which hangs a very credit- EXHIEITION OF DIs- cover a continent. They were satisfictorily fixed in the matter of overcoats, fishing tackle, ham sand- wiches and flasks of spiritual comfort. They cared little about the cold aud when Captain Foster apolo- gizea for not having provided steam heaters -in the saloon to keep their feet warm they laughed in scorn, For really enjoyaole codfishing they prefer midwinter, when the rigging of the steamboat is covered half an inch thick with frost. Among the veterans were Joe Morgan and his mother —whose enthusiasm for codfishing is something re- markable in an old lady. She is a deft hund at land- ing # cod, und lays away over her son Joe in that respect; but he is equal to her in skill when extract- ing a gaff from the jaws of # conger eel, and he can do the job without swearing (and sv can his mother), a thing which few of these salt sea anglers can boast. There were, besides, Roger Loftus, ‘Dick’? Volck- mann and his brother Peter, Fred. Foster, George Pelto’ John Jonuston, Fred Schaumberger, J ucker, George Zaun, Maurice Harri- gan and Captain Sam Morreli—all experts in hooking and handling the lively cod. The party spent no time on the trip down in gwsthetic reflections on the beauty of the bay, the picturesque effect of the glittering white sails in the distance, backed against the dark brown shore, or the dancing deep blue waters; but set to work donning their denim overalls and preparing their skimmer clam bait for the work before them. A flock of sea gulls followed in the wake of the steamboat, and the captain’s buffalo gun was brought to bear upon them and fired with stunning noize, at which the sea gulls laughed and sailed away unharmed. Out on the broad ocean the swell was hardly felt aud nobody even thought of sea sickness. ON THE BANKS, When the Seth Low cast anchor she was about forty- five miles from New York, with the light gray hori- zon to the south and the low, dim outline of Fire Island to the north. At anchor all around were tidy fishing smacks to the number of sixty or seventy, and asx many light rowbouts, all busy fishing for the coy- eted cod, The boys on the Seth Low were early to work, baiting their barbed hooks with skimmer clams and casting their sinkers out to ses, Maurice Harri- an hauled in the first cod, amid a shout of applaus ut his lines fell in unproductive places for some time afterward, and the detested conger eel became bis portion. ‘George Zaun fished for an hour and struck nothing but conger eels, whereupon he got disgusted and exclaimed, “I makes no tun any more mit dese tam Congress eels.” Maurice Hurri- gan’s cod weighed eight pounds and he was ve proud of his cupture, till “Ole Dan" Tucker sc in one that turned the balance at twenty-two “CN bet the drinks,” Tucker, ‘that’s boss cod of the day,” 80 it proved. A big and livel; member of the codfish family ran off with Frau! Ritter’s hook and bait clear away under the keel of the steamboat, and there, seeing another hook and bait, grabbed for and got it, ‘The fish was hauled up by the owner of the last book and bait on the oppo- site side of the boat from where Ritter was standing, much to the latter's mortification, “By shimminy, dhas ish my cod,” cried he, jump- ing from one side of the boat to the other, ‘Der's mein hook and der’s mein line and bait ’Oid on, my ‘earty,”’ replied Lott my and line are there, too; that cod belongs to bot! ‘us and we'll toss up to see who'll ‘ave ‘im.’” ‘Vell, let him pe so,” seid Ritter, good naturedly; “der's do use fightin’ ofer a codfish,” and the dispute was amicably settled, Ritter winning the toss. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. Captain Sam Morrell aud Fred Foster went off in a rowboat to fish on their own account, and in two hours brought back forty-five codtisu, i in all over 300 pounds and filling two barreis. ‘The couger eels caused a great deal of profanity in the first stages of the day's fishing, snd this culminated in a perfect torrent of anuthemas, when Fred Schaumberg, weighing 250 pounds, lost his perpendicular in trying to keep one under his héels while extracting a hook from its jaws. Fred sud- denly sat down on the gory deck, with his legs point- ing (o the horizon and his ecceutric hook inserted in the widest part of Lis pantaloons was a sight for fecling eyes. “Mein Gott!’ be roared with his returning breath, “dese congave eels iss de yery tau tyvil himself, dou you know.” About the same time @ nervous countryman of Fred's hauled in a lobster that made his fingers shuke, and in trying to unhitch his hook the lobster’s puir of scissors closed on his thumb and made him deuce the can-can. “He's got’ em bad,” was all the sympathy he re ceived trom those around him, ana wen he rid bian- selt of the lobster they gathcred about and looked curiously at the hooks he used, “Why,” said one of the fishermen, ‘those hooks ure too weak for codfish.” “Vell don’t you uefer mind dot,” he coplied, rather angrily; ‘dey is strong enough for veakush,"’ “Ol we see,” retorted the other; “it's weakfish you're looking for, not cudtiehs: ’ook h of “Shust so, mistare smart mans, shust so,” and he | walked off with an air of victory. STARBOARD AND VORY. For an hour or so the anglers ou the starboard side of the boat bad a corner in codiish, while thoxe on | the other bad to put wp with an uninterrupted run | of cels, some skates, sea robbins and one or two black- fish. Conger eels swrewed the dotk, which was slip: pery with their blood, and na they died hard aud wriggled lonyt walking about was pecilous, One fieh- erman caught two cougers on a single hook and these were dubbed “the two orphans.” Avkate, like a young pig's, was captured by anot sa rarecuriosity. Le number Veaught was quite unnsnal and hauled over the gunwal 1 boat, was 145, of w Ly one man was nine, the m four. Joe Morgan was not aé successful ax usual, but | Lis mother, who looks as young as Linself, saved the family’s professional reputation by lending a bonncer, weighing twelve pounds, Less than half-e-dozen of the party met with ill luck, and if they were unfortu- nate in not being patronized by the codfish they had abundance of game to show iu the matter of couger eels, But these were the abhorrence of the veterans, and no juan could aspire to rank high as 4 fisherman auong them whose only trophy was a string of such reptiles, Coming home the company was in the best’ of humor with the day's sport, the weather having proved absolutely delightiul and the sport far above TK five, and the next BEST FRIEND. “Put Casey, abusive, drunk and disorderly, ten days,” said the Fifty-seventh Street Court Judge yes- terday. “I've @ mother.” “Well 7" “And a sister. “Well, what of that?’ ‘Ant a brother.” “Anything mor “And @ wife end @ family and friends, re you through?” “Anda position and a home,” “What then?’ wpectability, and »—"* anf hty strong liking for whiskey. Since your is tred ii finish your history, and of all your cig the last is your best. ‘ten days,” concluded able little “Sunset View on Lake George,” by John Pope. We next notice two pictures from the last Academy, Edway Gay's “East Chester, N, Y.," and Wordsworth Thompson’s “Army of the Republic, 1177.” “The First Smoke” is agood little story by i77. William Hahn, in which one of the figures, that of the boy, is well posed and solidly painted. We are lad to note another little Bolton Jones. J. H. Soiph, in his ““In the Wrong Shop,” has an excellent story, and a picture in good tone. The, horse ig noticeably well painted, much better than the two figures, *Near this is alittle M. F. H.de Haas, with good light on the surf dashing in between two lines of cliff, Gilbert Gaul has in his picture ‘The Fall” an ad- mirable and poetic idea. ‘The treatment, however, is not so refined as the subject demands. The face of the mother, which is weil rendered, ix that of a young ‘irl and not of 4 young woman; the pose is good, the stume well treated, the handling broad and the reneral effect strong. Above this is Frank Waller's re Academy picture, “Citadel of Cairo, From the Desert.” Near it on the line are Kruseman van Elten’s: “Summer -Day on the Wynockie,” and F, Hoven- den’s masterly “Pride of the Old Folks,” both of which appeared at that exhibition. J. C. Beckwith sends a figure of a Roman girl arranging her hair as she stands by a well. The face is treated with much refinement, but the figure and costume are lacking in strength, chiefly of effect. The last picture which we come to ou this wall is a figure piece by Cephas G@. Thompson. How the committees can have the moral courage to accept and hang such a picture is hard to understand, But then the painter is an academician! “A Christmas Visit,” by John G. Wiggins, shows a creditable advance. On the east wall, in the centre of which is hung Lesrel’s large picture, “The Card Players,” we first notice a lake sceve by Casilear, and some finely winted peaches by Wilmarth. M. F. H. de Haas’ “Squall on the New England Coast” is # magnificent work, with a picturesque motive and full of dash and spirit in the treutinent of the scene. A notable piece of good work is the fishing boat, which has barely escaped being driven on the rock. The sky is the weakest part of the pic- ture, the cloud forms being somewhat crude. In James M. Hart's pleasing “Cattle in the Autumn Woods" there is good drawing in the trees and excel- lent atmosphere and distance up the grove. At the side of the Lesrel is Lung one of the, if not the, best pictures in the exhibition, A. F. Bunner’s upright canvas, “An Old Tower iu Rothenburg, Bavaria.”’ It is a vigorous, solid work, harmonious in ull its rela- tions, care:ul in drawing and excellent in atmo- sphere and perspective. As a piece of extremely good work note the old wall in the left fcre- ground, with the pigeon flying down from it, Near this is the “Young Art Student,” by Wilmarth, in which the figure is unsatisfactory though the ac- ceasories are painted with rare skill. On this same wall Kruseman van Eiten has u really charming scene on a New Jersey river. The water lacks surface, but the landscape is admirable. A stage coach rumbling along a country road, by J. H. Cocks, is promising, and seems suggested by a late picture by Bridgeman. Turning to the south wall we find « good little marine by Arthur Quariley, with a broadly treated sky and noticeable rock Work. By L. C. Tiffany's Academy picture, ‘A Laborious Rest,” is J.G. Brown's “Buy Apples 7" The face and pose of tbe boy are de- serving of much praise, but we shoutd like to see in the hands a certain amount of the Anish observable im the tace. A. F. Bunner's “Hayboats Waiting for the Breeze” is # striking picture. 4 ge A. T. Bricher we do not care much for, as it is imharino- nious and scattered in effect aud obtrusive in color, Mr. Bristol's “Authouy’s Nose, Lake George,” has good atmosphere and distance, but would have been better with more strength in the foreground. Near this is another of Mr. ‘Litfany’s Academy pictures, and a very creditable work, ‘Washington's First Mis- sion,” by Alonzo Chappel. The coloring is weak, though pleasing. Ajain we see an Academy picture, this time K. W. Hubbard's. A cattle piece, by Ogden Wood, bung on the second line? deserves much attention for ite wuany excellent qualities. The foreground cow is # piece of careful drawing and good painting. The white cow behind lacks torm texture; the herbage of the foreground is finely painted, and the effect of light in the distauce a strong point. | A Priest Leaving A. Bridgeman, has a pair of stri king Agures and is a something to be desired, Finally, in this room we note a yood P. P. Ryder, E. L. Henry's “Departure of the Brighton Coach” and a neat litte Champuey. In the small west room are, among others, a little Van Eltcn, Waiter Satterlee’s “The Cuptive,” 8. J. Guy's “The Brook,” a yood Venetian scone by Colcman, a Willian Hurt, David Johuson's sterling little “On the Kousatonie’ ond Kakin’s mue. Players.” Passing into the asscmbly room of the Academy we note auoug the water colors an xdtuirable land- scape by Glgnonx; a little view under a barn entrance by Hugh Newell, pleasingly treated; Percival de Liwe’s “Girl Kuitting;” P.8, Chirel's “Kefuge’ and "4 inndsewpe by Van Elten; two , alzeedy exhibited: poor Lonis me good sheep, by Joun Thorpe: D. R. “Return fro Fields,” a John 8. wood féene, with figures and a nice light a yood marine, by Thozpe; two fgttre pieces, by Newell; a Sartain, a bit of Mies” Bridge's ant J.C." Nicoll's “Of Portland “Harbe Among the etchings are frames of H. Farrer's aud Charles H. Miller's work. A striking litde pen and ink fs by the cele- W. H. Gibson fe represented by srayou Work, one On the north wall are hung @ nnmber « the best of which have made their appoar- le piece by George a, Wyant's Society of American ’. de Haas, # Lyman, 4 flue little sume bois by Minov, Edward Moran's “The Victorious Madeleine,” and uw pleasing landscape by J. H. Witt, whieh would be much improved if a third of the # suyas to the left were cut off, The Hanging Com- mittee wi esate. R. W. Hubbard, John A, Parker, John M. Falconer ana Alonzo Chappel. The collec- tion coiprives over tive hundred exemples. brated De Nitti good iandsea mirable. Inness J) Artists picture, a NEW BOOKS RECEIVED, Library of Pootry. Edited by William’ Cutten Titmetrated with steol portraits, wood engravings silkouette titles, anaua- Fords, Howard & Hul- jeve of Brabant. A legend in verse. By Mrs. ~ Willing, J.B. Lippincott & Co., publishers, Phila de!phian Lis, The romanee of an opal ring, By MB. M, land With numerous tilustrations. J. B. Lippincots & Co., pab- Land Auterican arti similen, &e.. &e,, 2 vols, lighers True Bins. A story of the great Northwoat. Mrs. Tela Chae Hell. 0, Lothrop & hare, Boston. *] Unilae ‘Original vem s Pee i Lnthtop & Co, publishers, Shildren § Almanae tor i87ii-%-61-2-, Bdited by man, D. Lothvop &Co., publishers. a. A Spinto nslated from the French or Merimie of my. T. B, Peterson chal deta Repubtien de Chili Correspon- wt teal Ang de 187%, From GX, Ulint, Consul of Uniti, ork, gland Not Dead, and Tark and Britow. Also cor | | | scenes of Cumberland sketched in tht, fone, word and verse Dagnell, owthor of several epic and ochey lyrica! dud narrative poems, Loudon, iis biotoxical. ew Wlison, Pb. 1, sutiles of Armeries by Sen and Land, with Biographics of Naval and Military Commanders The Great Civfl Wer the Judge. Hy Jobo Laird Wilsvn, Tlustrated with uumerous a the ‘Lemple,” by F. | solid little work. ‘The treatment of the drapery leaves | admired ‘fhe Chess | rk so. . By nF. W. Robinse Charles 2, DiNing ds, By Ly Clarkse: engravings. James S. Virtue, publisher, 12 Dey street, New York é Rag Fatr and Other Revert o i tians by the antler Philadelphis. vo York, tile Stayeai-Mome aud Miustrated by the jut! vere, Mtladelplia. Frou - New Yurk, Frauklin Square Library—Lisht and Shade. A novel, By Charlotte f, O'Brien. ‘ibe Story of the Christians and Moos of Spain. By Charlotte M. Yonge, Harper & Brothors, publishers, New York. TWO NEW VOLUMES OF POEMS. LONGFELLOW'S VERSES IN ,“THE CHILDREN'S It is not every day thet Boston has a new poet, but she is to find one next week, in the person of the author of “Mog,” Mrs. Zadel Barnes Gustafson. “Meg,”’ aecording to the title page, is a pastoral, and it relates the loves of a rural young person who first bestows her affections on a flirting young student, and then gives them to a ‘steady, good young man named John. It must be confessed that this plot is not strikingly original, and the phraseology aud ii ry of the poem ave as well worn as its story, the writer béing, spparentiy, one of those persons whose memories are 0 yood and whose minds are so imprcesible that they cen hardly speak without using words which they have heard elsewhere. It often happens that mosaics are beautiful, and “Meg,” m spite of a hundred faults of versificetion and rhym- ing, shows undeniable talent; but the best thing in the book is the poem on “William Cullen Bryant,” in which the author is unusually felicitous in her “derangement of epitaphs. She represents all ma- ture as mourning the man who had sung her hymns | so nobly. Asingle passage of a few lines will show both the funits of the author and the skill which she shows in blending her phrases :-— He sang thy praise, O “June!” and well mayst thou Bring ull thy beanty to his coming now; Let thy soft breathings, blending odors rare, ‘Tune the green reed harps where his slumbers are! Cail thy bright butterflies—in_hulf-embrace wings—-to veil the auered place; Ask of thy lilies, scarlet, purple, white, Their fuirest petals for a drapery bright Which the deft humming bird and housewife bee Shai! weave with skeins of cobweb skilfuliy ; Sprinkle with incense thy most fragrant leaves Distil in dewy morns and drowsy eve It may as well be said that if it can possibly be managed by skilful wire-pulling Boston is to be en- raptured with these poems, and to believe that “clover” and “lover’’ aud “true’’ and ‘‘view"’ rhyme, as Mra, Gustafson makes them, but oven without these efforts the book would’ probably sell well, tor readers of liglit poetry have uot very keen critical faculties, and new novels are always scarce at this | season. m Another coming volume of verse is “Out of Dark- ness Into Light,” by Mary A. Lachbury, with illus- trations by the author. This is a thin quarto vol- ume, published by D. Lathrop & Co., in holiday style, andthe poems, although rather too ‘lenny- sonian in style, are by no means bad. One of them runs thu DAWN. “The glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the ter- restriul is another.”—I.' Cor., xv., #0: There is a dying in my days, As when the moon grows faint at mora, And stars die when the dy is born; So wanes the world o’er all my ways. Its hours of brightness are not bright; Its golden lamps, a-bloom with flame, Its altars to the unknown name, Burn with a fulse and fitful light. Though Pleasure sits a syren there, And lifts the voice that Inlled me long To airy altitudes of song, It dies upon the heedless air. Lo—from the heavens, one by one, ‘The stars are sinking; and my life—- | Mute witness of the unequa! strife— Thrills with the promise of the Sun. The Children’s Almanac, edited by Ella Farman and published to-day, contains the poems by Longfellow, Whittier and Aldrich. Longfellow’s is * JAMES. Jemes and I, oldest of potentates! Forward I look and backward, and. below Tcount, as god of avenues and gates, The years that through my portals come und go. I block the roads and drift the fields with snow; T chase the wild fowl from the frozen fen, ‘My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, y tires light uy the hearths and hearts of m Mrs, Whitney’s poem on Febrnary is the best in the book,all things considered, for it is not only short and adapted to the juvenile mind but it has the epigrammatic turn which all such bits of verse should have, and which only Dr. Holmes, of all American writers, always manages to give. This is what Mrs. Whitney says:— Will winter never be over? Will the dark days never go? Must the buttercup and the clover Be always hid wider the snow? Ah, lean me your littlé ear, love, '. Hark to « beautiful thing—- The weariest month of the year, love, Is shortest and nearest the spring! Houghton, Osgood & Co. publish the holiday “Un- cle Tom's Cabin” to-day in a binding of bevelled Doards and on red line paper. ‘The pictures are by an English artist, and are strong, but not remarkably good. The bibliography, by George Bullen, and the introduction, containing letters written to and by Mrs. Stowe about the book, are the most valuable things in it. The next book published by this house will be Holmes’ “Life of Motley.” THE CATHEDRAL SWORD. WHO THE WINNER OF THE CATHEDRAL FAIR CON- TEST I8—HIS PEACEFUL MILITARY RECORD. So spirited was the competition and so unex- pected the defeat of Major General Newton and other | Prominent officers of the United States army by | General Daniel D. Wylie in the voting contest for the handsome sword at the Cathedral fair many inquiries have been made regarding the winner. “Who is General Wyiie 7’ asked hundreds at the the. dral after the unnouncement of the vote, and the same question was frequently repeated in various sectious of the city yesterday. In order that this curiosity may be sutisfactorily met a sketch | of the successful compotitor is given herewith. Gen- eral Wylie was born in New York in 1840 and therc- fore in in the thirty-righth year of his age, Since 1860 he has been connected with the National Guard ot New York, boldiny a considerable portion of the | time important positions. When President Lincoln | first culled out the militia im 1461 Goneral | Wylie, then not twenty-one years of e, | mipanied the Eighth regiment, NG, ial a of which organization he was a lnembet ton, and afterward into Virginia. When the re, three imonthe ad expired General Wylie returned with his regiment, and upon the secoud and third demands of President Lincola upon tho militia of the North he went back to the scat of war with the Eighth, ‘fhe next important step im his military ea- reer Was the taking command of the Washington an independent organization of this city, whieh position he held for eight yew wid until more important required | his resignation, He was then a uted Rifle Inspector of the Third brigade nities in w partiontariy #atvafuc qissioned ws inepe same brigule, which office he held until 1876, In the fall of that year Gen- eral Knox's term as Commissary General of Ord- nance of the Stue of New York having nearly ex- pired, the name of Inspector Wylie, was mentioned, and in due time he was nominated by Governor Rob: inson and confirmed by the Senate. He still holds this position, and during the labor riote of last y was Atationcd at Horuetleville, ou the Erie Raib | by order of Governor Rotinson, where he remained until the trouble was over, ‘Tho General regrets that his war record is not more brilliant, but attributes it to his youth aud jack of opportunities when the war broke out. Since the orgenization of the National Rifle Associa. tion General Wylie has been prominently identitied | with the organization, and is now its treasurer. In all competitions at Creedmoor he has been particu- Jarly active, and inuch of the success of the rifle range is due to his efforts. Goneral Wylie is a member of the firm of Messrs. Amos & Wylie, importers and dealers in flux and hemp, and has been sixteen years a merchant in this city. He is related by marriage to Police Commissioner Nichols, who is well known as an active member of the Tammany organization. General Wylie himself has never been an active poli- ald though always acting with the democratic party. arging the ory Runner, Was com- i UNTERRIFIED JIMMIE, It was all agreod betweon the parents and the Fifty: | seventh Street Court Judge yesterday that a very bad urchin named Jimmie Downes should be fright- ened into goodnes: So Jimmie, eight years of ogo, | chewing thi rot hiv cap, was confronted with the magistrate’s awful gaze, “Youre a yery bad fellow, Jimmio,” said tho | Court. a “Who's boon tellin’ yor our father and mother,’* suid the Court, in a terrible tone. “Seo hore, Jedge,” said the Ind, to the great as- tonishment of the magistrate, “sees the old man and the old woman comin’ it over you, but don’t go to come it over me, i'm not a vit.” So Jimmie was taken to the prison @ud locked up. He was uuterritied at last accounts, THE NEW IRISH DEPARTURE A VOICE FROM tt To THe Eprron oy THE Herat! Here in Ireland we have of late’ heard by somewhat of a new Irish departure brewing on your side of the Atlantic. Your issue, just to hand, of October 27, brings partienlars thereof. Your reportes has interviewed Mr. Luby, Mr, Breslin, Mr. Bourke Mr. Rossa, Mr. Condon and other prominent Irish nationalists not named; and, while they differ some what in their views, your conclusion is that “Fenian ism seems very to bo about to take a new depurtiire, * The reporter was assared that lively times are ahead dn both England and Ireland. °*-* A belief in mere isolated insurreetionary movement’ seems to have died out and to be replaced by a deter- mination to obtain sueh a public standing in Ireland as will attract the attention of the world and secure alliances with England's (/. ¢., the United Kingdom's) enemies.” ntlemen you name are well known, ‘Theit ya weight snc as cannot be attached t am unknown; but IT hoid trong and clea your courtesy to be per countrymen in the ited States, Ihave not suffered for Ireland as they have suffered; I have not endured iimprisonments o1 been subjected to indignities which, meted to polit ical offenders, have inflicted indelible stains upon the dignity and honor of the Unitel Kingdom. BntI love Iveland as truly and decply 2s any of them; thonghts regarding her and what is for her happiness and interest follaw me in my business, my studies and my pleasures, are around me whether I live at home or travel abroad, Although unknown, I am not unqualified to speak. Lam a Dublin tradesman, as were my ancestors; my interests are therefore identified with the prosperity and happiness of Ireland. I have had Irish national- ist sympathies oll my life; I was treasurer of the Home Rule League for nearly seven years; Iam there foré not unqnalified to speak regarding Irish politics, Ihave writien a not unimportant book relating te Irish biography; Iam therefore not unqualified te speak regarting Irish history. A Protestant, and ne admirer of the Catholic system, I love my Catholic fellow countrymen nd’ entirely respect their convie: tions, and Llove Catholics abroad, because they form such an overwhelming proportion of my countrymen at home; Lam therefore not entirely out of accord with their feelings and aspirations. Idesire to denounce in the most unqualified terms the new departure pro- posed for Ireland's acceptance; yet entirely under- stand the feelings that sway Mr. Rossa and that of his friends. I dislike the caste system upon which so- ciety in the United Kingdom is largely founded. I would prefer the land tenure of France and Prussia toourown, Labominate the British policy of tor- eign domination over inferior races (as I do your spoliation of the red man). While I believe that the wrongs inflicted by England on Ireland were mainly the result of circumnstances—not of anything in- herently wicked in the English people or govern- ment—of the death struggle waged between Proies- tantism and Catholicism over the civilized world for centuries, not that Eaglish Protestantism was worse or nigh as bad as Spanish and French Catholicism—I still understand their feelings of hatred toward Eng- land; and somewhat similar feelings so far sway me thut { can never feel toward the Union Jack as your citizens toel toward the Stars and Stripes, as the French feel toward the Tricolor and the Swiss feel toward the White Cross. But I cannot shut my eyes to present fucts, or sce how the new departure—the ‘want to see something done that will hurt England the United King- dom, of which Ireland is pa therefore that wi! hurt Ireland) before we go,” would in any way atone for the past or contribute to Ireland's yreatne: the future. Imay have thought differently once, bu years and study and a pretty severe apprenticeship in the school of Irish politics have convinced me to the contrary. ‘There 1s as real freedom and as perfect justice to be had in these countries as in any other countries upon earth. ‘There is not a wrong, not an inequality (and there are many) existing that way not be righted by honest and persistent ‘constitutional agitation. Nothing holds us back but traditions, many of them mistaken, and pero procliyities and passions that’ may be subdned. Look- ing over this country you see her not in- dced as she might be, but in » happier state than ever she was in before, creed made wonderful progress in wealth and civilization during the it thirty years. I believe that while discontent is un appre- ciable thread in the lives of musses of our fellow countrymen it is a8 nothing.to the hourly and a“ iutcrests that bind them tothe statu quo. ‘The civ: service of the United Kingdom and its vast depen. dencies is open to all through competitive examina tions, and largely do all classes of Lrishinen crowd into it. The urmy, navy and militia must be populur, us Irisimen form 4 larger proportion thereof in com: parison to their numbers than do the inhabitants of any other portion of the United Kingdom. A large armed police force is here maintained, composed of Trishmen; situations therein are eagerly sought for. Millions of Irishmen live in Great Britain. An Englishinan is as popular in Freland as is'as an'Trish- wan. ‘Ax to foreign affairs—the influence the United King- dom has undoubtedly obtained in India and eise- where—Irelund 45 & part of that United Kingdow would have intinitely greater influence for good than if she were independent. All that is wanted to condrm Ireland in the way of solid prosperity and piness is that-the ennobling breath of couscious political life should grow with her—that she should accept responsibilities as well us patronage. Theoretically 1 would preter that thie should come about through independence. But let us recognize the truth that this caunot be. Ido not believe the governing public opinion of Irelaud would sanction the change, and the United Kingdom is but following the instinct of every uation that has ever sprung into being in objecting evey to the men- tion or dismemberment. ne, 1 convictions, and E tiast to ted io lay them before 13 m) a experience of Irish politics convinces me that the irish people do not care for any minor rearrange: ment of the relations between the islands up to the point of making the sacritices necessary for its accom plishment. I therefore maintain that a policy such us that sketched out in the new departure, or the home pol- icy of keeping wp a simmering discontent as 4 meaus to accomplishing political changes of undoubted necessity, will be ruinous and degrading to the coun- try. Let'us recognize that we cunnot accomplish our ends, snd let us stand aside, Let us hold our own opinions, our own theories, intact; but let us rise te tucdwight of loving Ireland so entirely, and unsel- fixhly that we wilh rest sulistied if we but see her happy. Let our ideal Ireland, tor which so many declare theniseives ready to give their all—their lives—treely and hopecully pursue her path to happiness, ulthough that path may not be the one we would choose or that tur which thousands have sacrificed themselves, Do not let us busely scek tu disturb where we cannot effectually aid; do not let us seek further té druy her mind with vitter memories that can only poison her future happiness. Let frisnimen on your side the Atlantic and others of our countrymey on southern continents enter heartily and Honestly into the political lite and duties relating to their new homes. Let those of us who remain in Jreland, wo cannot heartily throw ourselves into affairs as they are, try to aid in small things if we cannot hope to forward great. Ireland, we hope, will brighten and flourish with the ages. Life has other piewsurcs aud other duties bes.des those flereely political. At the worst, a few years aud we and ovr parsious and cisappointed hopes will be resting in quiet graves. . in any case, Wiut rigut have we to car our quar- .Tels out to the disturbance of the politics of other nations ? What a horrible idew it is to seek to embroil them in complications and wars on our account ! What # role some of us ave playing abrowd! As yet a traditionary sympathy has been extended toward us. But atew more yeurs of such a policy as that of the departure oflered to our se ceptance—a few more years of dolorous plaints aud imprecations, in the tace of the real state of affairs at home—and the very name of Ireisnd will become hated among the nations. Treiaud, indeed, cannot follow out the new depart we without many glances backward on the past. She will never forget any that have ever honestly suffered for her, Leust of all will she ever for- get us, if, imbued with a genuine self-forgeitul Jove, we are willing to make for her whut may after all be the greatest sacritice--the abandon- ment of long cherinned desires aud litelong aspira- tions. But [relaud will in the future have, while remembering, reason to curse na if, not recognizing the signs of the times, we, power to ald her in our own way, sct snares und pitralls on the path she ap. ears to Me to Lave irtoyocably, though us» yet per- hops timidly, entered upon—a self-respecting and an cnnobiing, hot ® slavish or degrading union with Great Britain, integral portion of the United Kingdon, | Has not her hustory already been troubled enough? Has not her path lain long enough over wrecked lives and blasted hopes—amid death and ruin? Is it not time to leave her at peace; to reat wutivfied that whatever is for the best wili be worked out by the painless and unresistible torce of circum stances? Yours, respectfully, ALFRED WEBB, WHY HE WAS PUT OUT, A small sited Itishinen with a large rized head fidgeted in his seat in the Firty-sevonth Street Court yesterday while the case of O'Neil against McCarthy ‘was being heard. “T'd lotke to say a few words,” he at last shouted a4 he rove in the centre of the court room, “Hush,” said one of the court officers, “Hold your own gab,” he replied, “I’m interested in this cus, Your Honor,’ in u very loud tone, “and I'd loike to spake 4 few words.” ‘The court officer grabbed him by the back of the neck and rudely scated him, vand why dit you do that for?” heasked. The ome pe ed to hry one a his back. eal “I'd loike——"' said the disturber, risi odirgasing the Court, Wich ‘ore he could say more the self-same oflleer pro- veiled him out of the room,