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. GRANT AND 1880 sneer Brother-in-Law Corbin on the Bul- garian Throne Story. “TOO FUNNY FOR ANYTHING.” The General Will Not Staud in the Way of Other Republican Leaders. A few weeks ago there was published in the Henatp an interview had with Mr. Abel C. Corbin, General Grant's brother-in-law. Certain statements made by -Mr. Corbin, especially the statement that General Grant never was a tanner, gave rise at the time to considerable discussion, and there are not a few per- sons, gaid to be old friends of the General, who claimed that Mr. Corbin had made, to say the least of it, a very big mistake about the tanning business. The reporter had recently another inter- view with Mr. Corbin, at Elizabeth, N. J., during which he reiterated his former assertion that General Grant had never been a tanner. THE BULGARIAN THRONE. STORY, “What do you think of this Philippopolis story, Mr. Corbin?".asked the reporter, “I don’t know anything about it. What is it?” “Why, a story telegraphed from Philippopolis to a London paper to the effect that General Grant had been proposed as an occupant of the Bulgarian throne.” There was such a look of incredulity depicted on ‘the face of the veteran ex-journalist, such an expres- sion of doubt, apparently, as to whether'the reporter ‘was not ‘drawing the long bow” of his imagination, that the interviewer felt it necessary to assure Mr. Oorbin of the seriousness of the subject, and, there- fore, drew from his pocket the London Slaxdard’s despatch and the Heratp’s comments thereon, Both were read to Mr. Corbin. His face broadened into » smile and he said laughingly :-— “Oh, that’s too funny for anything. Grant King of Bulgaria! Of course there can’t be an iota of real basis for such a report.” “«But supposing such an offer were really made to the General, do you think he would accept ?” “Exeuse me, but really the thing is too ridiculous. You'll see it fully contradicted, no doubt, in the Henatp’s foreign despatches when the General hears of it.”” FAIR PLAY AND THE THIRD TERM, “Now that the elections are over, Mr. Corbin, what fo you think the prospect is for 1880—do you think Generel Grant will be recalled to the leadership of the republican party ?” “I can only repeat what I said before. I have had no conversations or correspondence with the General on the subject, but my conviction is that he will not enter the contest as a candidate. He feels, I amesure, that he has had his turn, his full share. He is a lover of fair play, and is too manly to do anything that would savor of selfishness or of ingratitude to those other great men in the republican party who so long and so ably sustained and defended him, I am sure that he feels that it is their turn now, he having had his. The recent elections have settled one point. They have made it certain that the republican party or any party ix not dependent for success upon any one man. It has many men any oneof whom would stand @ good chance of election.” EFFECT OF THE RECENT ELECTIONS. “Then your idea is that the turn the recent elec- tions took has reassured the republicans and satisfied them that the nomination of General Grant is not es- sential to success?” “I would not say that exactly. ‘The elections ought to have that effect, but how far such a feeling extends Iam not able to judge. As I have previously said I do not think the Generai will be in the race. There is nocrisis such as there was in 1832, when we insisted upon running Jackson, believing that he was the only man then that the democracy could elect.” NO ¥XPRERSION A8 TO- CANDIDATES. “Who do you think is most likely to get the repub- nomination? How does Mr. Conkling stand?” “Oh, I would’nt like to express myself on individ- NEW MEN TO THE FRONT. “But you think the republicans are likely to carry the country in 1880?” “I think their chances are good, but it is too soon to decide on that point yet. Wait till Congress gets going. ‘The iesues have yet to be joined. New men &re constantly coming forward. ‘There is my old friend Governor Houston, of Alabama, who has just been elected to the United States Senate. He was eigh- teen years a member of Congress and was chairman of the Ways and Means Commuittee—the political leader of the House. He is a man of commanding ability, of great experience and disciplined statesmanship. ‘Men like him and Bayard and Katon will make them- selves felt im the Senate. The issues of the next campaign are, in my judgment, yet to be formed.” ‘THE FINANCIAL ISSUE. “How about the financial issue?’ “My view is that the leading men of the country and that the great mass of the people have got the true idea. ‘They are in favor of a paper currency that 4s convertible at will into gold. ‘Lhe government has no right to special privileges. It must stand on the same footing with individuals. It must redcem its promises the same as a bank or an individual or else «suffer dishonor. If there are $300,000,000 of green- ‘backs out there ought to be that amount of gold on hand at the Treasury Department to redeem the greenbacks as may be desired.” THE DEMOCRACY ON ITS GOOD BEHAVIOR. “How do the chances of the democrats appear to rou?” “Everything depends upon what they will do in Congress. It they act with wisdom and prudence their chances will improve, but a few false steps will doubtless lay them agaiu on thetr backs. 1am an old Mine democrat. I fought hard for Jackson against the United States Bank. We won, but not easily. There was only one bank to fight. THURMAN AND THE BANKS. “If, now, Thurman—I knew his uncle, Old Bill Allen, well when he was in the Senate—it Thurman should succeed in getting his party t6 make a general fight against the banks a great mistake woul made, Just think! We had a hard time electing Jackson against one bank. Fancy a fight against 2,400 of them—one in every county in the nation, say, aud all of them the depositories of the people's money! It strikes ime that I wouldn't want to be in that tight. It wouldn't be a tight; it would be a imasqucre, I don’t think ‘Thurman is strong enough to lead his party into that sort of stupid toll, THE WEST AND SOUTH TO COMBINE. “Whom will the democrats run for President, do you think?" ‘I wouid rather wait a while before answering that question. I aw apprehensive that the great West and South will sooner or later combine and leave the North and East ont in the cold. Idon't think it would be a wise thing; but there is » growing fecling that way South and West.”’ _ GOODBY, UNCLE SAIt0 “Has Tilden any chance, think you “Oh, no, none whatever, He is unquestionably a Bian of great ability, of commanding talents, but he has been dropped. He is not even talked of.” COMPLIMENTS FOR TOM HENDRICKS AND WIFE, “What of Hendricks?” “Hendricks is a splendid man. You'd like him, Everybody likes Tom Hendricks. He would make » Gne President, and his wife—she's a delightful lady. 1 know Tom end his wife well. He i# a mau that would gather around him the brains and character of the country.” “But what are his chances?” “Ah! you will have to utop there. Some montha from now, when imatters begin to shape at Washing- ton, if you should call on me [may be able to say something to be putin the Hrratp about that. As it ix now [don’t think anything I could say about it would be worth printing.’ THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The steamer City of New York, of the Inman line, after ten years’ service between this port and Liver- pool, has been completely rtbuilt and refitted and will sail to-morrow ou her rst voyage since she has been overhuuled, So thoroughly bas the work of improve- ment been accomplished that former passengers on the New York would scarcely know her, She has been supplied with new boilers and compound en- gines and is heated with steam throughout. Her saloon is exceedingly light and airy and canno: fail to be free from the uoxions odors which make dining on board ship so disagreeable, Each stateroom is sumptuously furnished, aud is given # sofa as well as the customary berths. Size is a charactoristic of the cabius of the City of New York, aud passengers by her will find their rooms saificiently large to live in fora voyage. Each room haa a pneumatic bell, and, what is of vastly more importance, 5 good kerosene amp instead of the wretehed glim which formerly was stick in a corner and made to do duty for two cabins at one time. The staterooms are all outside and their ventilation is perfect. Lesides, the passages leading to the rooms are vapecially well ventilated, In inort steamships these passages ond iu a cul de sac, where the air is almost thick enough to be cut with a knife; but on this vessel the ventilation is from the upper deck, with an tnyress of air at both ends, so tit a current is sustained at ali times, The Indios’ cubiu is un especially noteworthy upgrtment. It is furnished in parple velvet and “has a bathroom at- tached to it. ‘There are, besides, other bathrooms, and the smoking room, which is on the bur: Ficane deck, #8 an cleyunt regurt for ge : bus Probably the pleasanutest resort on the ship is the surgery, especialiy for #ach of tho passengers ue havo hy real occasion to gu to it. It is worthy of remark that the steerage Passengers are carried on the same t | and Mias Storm. | editication of tho little ones, aEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1878-—TRIPLE SHEET. deck with the cabin passen; ‘The officers of the City of New York are as followa:—Francis 8. Land, captain; Hugh . first officer; F. M. Be Taylor, third offic k. eB. Ch purser; O'Callaghan, su 3 Wiliam ‘t, Jones, chief enginver, aud James W. Greene, chiet steward. The vessel wil sail to-morrow with # full cargo and # complete list of passengers. Gey THE DAIRY FAIR. AN ADDRESS BY GENERAL BENJAMIN ¥, BUTLER ON DATRY FARMING ON A SMALL SCALE— SUCCESS OF THE EXHIRICION, The interest taken in the Dairy Fair, now open at the American Institute building, far exeecds the best ; hopes of its promoters, Yesterday “between | two thousand and two thousand five hun- dred persons visited the Rink to watch the processes through which milk goes on the road to butter and cheese, The Alpha and Omega of | dairy industry are here open to view. On oue hand you see the hay in bales and cow; a few fect distant 4 gentleman invites you to taste some bitter, the re- sult of the aforesaid hay, through the agency of an | Alderney or a Jersey cow, ‘The display | of blooded cattle is in itself a show | worthy of inspection, and the mechanical | process through which milk is made into | butter or cheese are curious to behold. The cheese, in truth, is fearfully aud wonderfully made, and those who doubt may go and see for themsclves. Ex- Governor Seymour was in attendance at the fair last night and no one was more delighted than he to see the great crowd that filled the vast enclosure. He was an attent listener to General Benjamin F, Butler, who was the speaker of the evening. GENERAL BUTLER'S SPEECH, When the General was introduced he was warmly greeted, and the applause having subsided he said that the coming together of an international dairy fair in the metropolitan city of the United States would but afew years ago have been deemed to be a meeting of those representing a small class of agricultural industries. The estimate might then have been correct, but to-day the fair rop- resented one of the greatest industries sof the States. It was amazing, he said, to consider that nearly $350,000,000 worth of butter and cheese had been produced in America during the last year. Wonderments never ceased when one learned that this production was one-seventh more valuablo than the wheat crop and one-third more valuable than the cotton crop. The wealth of the country in live stock could be inferred when it was known that | it required one milch cow to supply the wants of every five inhabitants. ‘The forty millions of Ameri- cans, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands | of foreigners who are supplied from this market, re- quired the care of vast flocks. Referring to the fig- res concerning the relative value of the wheat and dairy produce exported to Europe, the General said:— “We speak flippantly of our capacity to supply the world with breadstuffs. ‘True, we have the capacity soto do, but it is lamentably true that we do not do it. ‘The boastful Western man on his prairie will not be a little astonished to learn the fact shat the Republic of France, with no such area as the State of Texas, raives more wheat, in quantity, than the United States of America all told. So far’ from our supplying the markets of the world with wheat, | in the year 1867 we sent to England only 4,000,000 ; hundred weight of wheat, or about $9,000,000 in valuo, | while France exported to England $11,060,000 worth | of butter alone to spread on bread made of our wheat. A PLEA FOR BMALL FARMS, Again, to go back to the year 1860, where only we | can get accurate statistics of the products of the | United States and the products of France, let me call your attention to the following remarkable, but re- liable statistics of French agriculture. France then produced 230,000,000 bushels of oats against our 170,000,000; ' 70,000,000 bushels of rye against ‘our 20,000,000; 60,000,000 bushels of barley against our 12,000,000, and 32,000,000 bush- els of buckwheat against our 12,000,000, Nor was she | without the products of grazing and pasture land, which are supposed to be the necessity requiring our | extended farms. She had 4,000,000 horses | and vmules against our 4,250,000;, 12,000,000 | of neat cattle against our 13,000,000; 30,000,000 of sheep aguinst our 24,000,000, | and 6,000,000 of swine against our 16,000,000, As an example of what may be the profits of the smaller industries of farming, which by the farmers of the United States are reckoned almost valueless, it is an astonishing fact that in the year 1866 France exported us much in value of eggs to Eng- laud alone as we exported of bacon and hams, one of our chief exports of pro- visions in 1868, to all the world; that is to say, in round numbers, rising of $5,000,000, while we ex- ported eggs to the paltry number of 412 dozen. No man who has not had these figures brought to his consideration and who has not examined the agricul- tural productions of France, both in variety and amount, can believe that the 38,000,000 of her inhabitants on a territory so small as to give only three and a half acres to an inbabitant, could vie in agricultural productions, of all that goes to make up the necessaries of living and national wealth, saw cotton and tobacco, with a nation like ours, of about the same number of inhab- itanta, whose territory gives more than fifty acres to each inhabitant, or nearly seventeen times as much land for cultivation. REASONS FOR PROSPERITY. Land in France is very equally divided among the MISS SELMA whole of the population. According to the latest official returns the cultivated lend of France was divided into 5,550,000 distinct properties, Of this total the properties averaging 600 acres num- bered 50,000, and those averaging 60 acres, 500,000, while there are 5,000,000 of properties under six acres, Atter hearjng these statistics, the question,. T have no doubt, arises to the lips of each one of my auditors, as it came to me, how are these very great results possible? What is the secret? This may be told in a word. It is the thorough cultivation of the Of her 132,000,000 of acres, 64,000,000 ure 12,009,000 only are in meadows, or as owe say, fields and grass; 5,000,000 in vineyards; 1,600,000 in orchards and gardens; 2,250,000 in iniscellaneous crops; 20,000,000 in wood and forest; 500,000 in ponds; 20,000,000 only may be called heath or waste , the remainder being for roads, public squares, canals and pleasure grounds— about 7,000,000 of acres, Thus it will appear that two-thirds of the entire area of France is under actual cultivation every year. GATHERING THY, THREADS OY THE ARGUMENT. However, I secm fo hear some one of the enthusi- astic managers of this International Dairy Fair say- ing to himself, his courtesy to the speaker prevent- ing his ny nemps aloud his thoughts, admitting all that has n said to be true, in favor of farming in a general way ‘on small farms, how does it appear that such a division of land is tavoruble to the production of butter and cheese? I pray leave to give one fact in answer-to that. England is the best country that either F States has for those articles, and in the year 1876, which are the last reliable statistics which Ihave, from which Thave been quoting, England bought of our butter $2,465,000 worth, and of our cheese $12,824,000 worth, or an aggregate of both articles which may well arouse the pride of the United States, of $15,789,000. while England bought of France tho ‘same year $18,572,000 worth of butter, You will observe that I say nothing of the cheese that France sold to England, for the French farmers are far too practical to allow their cows to browse around bare pastures mtil their milk produces no butter but checse alone; and, besides, France cats most of her cheese herself, AN EPISCOPAL FAIR. A fair for the benefit of the Church of the Holy | Spirit was opened yesterday afternoon in the base- ment of the Church, Fifty-seventh street, near Park avenue, and wilt continue open to-day, to-morrow and Friday, from two till ten P, M. The of- fieors ot the tair are announced thus ™m the Journal, which, by the way, will be published while the fair continues:—President, Mra. J. A. Ham- mond; Vice President, Mrs. V. Orv: Secretary, Mra, Edmund Guilbert. Exeoutive Committee—Mre Stoutenburgh, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Bull, Mrs, MtUer, Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. De Witt, Mrs, Storm and Mra. Hop- kins. Conmtnittee on Pinanco—Mrs, ©. 8. Fleming ¢ object of the fair ino vednce the debt of the chureh, amounting to $6,000, which was incurred in making expensive basement of the decorated and twelve erected for the sale of articles suitable for holiday time, Most of these articles having been douated, some rare bargains are offered for cash, Honsshold goods, jewelry, br rac, stationery and all manner of ood things ave offered to the public, Edison's phono- graph will sing and talk and whistle and recite for the amusement of the patrons of the fair, and Panch and Judy will discuss their domestic troubles for the A post office is open at which gentlemen can obtain sweet messages from graceful hands, Coffee aud retresiments can also be had from the hospitable hand of Mra, Guilbert, the wife of the rector of the parish, who presides at the refreshment table, Mise baker ond Miss Hoffman preside over the floral table, Miss Annie Baker enacts Rebecca at the Well, and the twelve tables are in charge of Mesdames Stoutenburgh, Miller, Fleming, Eddy, Pemberton, Bull, Groosveck, De Witt, and Misscw Orvis, Grant, Storm, Ackerman, Furness, Burtia, Levy, Fleming, Miller, Adama, Cl oll, Dix, Scharts, Crane and Gibb, st. MAR been tastefully $ HOSPITAL FAIR. ‘The voting for the sword at St. Mary's Hospital Pair, hold at Montagne Hall, Court street, Brooklya, stood. yesterday as followa:—Chaplain Henry Ward Teec ly hirteenth regiment, 101; Colonel Carroll, of the Second vision, N. G. dict General James Jourdan, MeLeer, Fourtecath regiment, i 42, ‘The sword is valued at $200, and tury mon ave becoming deeply interested in the coa- test, as the fair will be broyybt to 4 close on Satur. day ‘night next. . I iL the Loe ap tepectally of ‘New York and Brootls; THE LECTURE SEASON. Bona DI SES SONGS OF FINLAND. Miss Seima Borg delivered the last lecture in hér series on Finland at the hall of the Young Wo:en's Christian Association yesterday afiernoon, ‘The sub- ject chosen for this lecture was “Kalevala,” meaning the book in which are collected the folk songs of Fin- land. This lecture gave Miss Borg an opportunity to speak of the poetry of her “people, and it is ON THE FOLK needless to say that she improved it and told in well chosen words of the wsthetic side of Vinnie character, "The ys Was sucient that their bir For | centurivs indeed, these songs Were handed down from one generation to another, but never put in print until 182. De, Lauurot discovered an oid tisherman who knew the words and music as they had been handed down through centuries. He too down both from the old man’s lips und published them. ‘'Thoy had hardly been recorded when the old mun died. ‘The chiet singers of these songs were the itincrant merchants who travelled through the coun- try and sang them at Finnish firesides. The word Kalevala signifies “whom of the mighty ones.” Miss Borg described the subjects doalt with in this volume, a copy of which lay upon the desk before her. Love, she said, was a never tiring theme, and Was sung in passionate language, and she reciled a stanza iu the Finnish tongue, which is very soft and sweet. ‘Che metre of the Kalevala is the same vs that of Hiawatha, and she says that it is the characteristic metre of the Finns. ‘these songs are sung to the accompaniment of an instrument like the zither Ou next Tuesday evening, at Chickering Hall, Miss Borg will give a concert of Finnish music, which will be interpreted by members of Thomas’ orchestra. DR, FESSENDEN N. O7IS ON THE RESTORATION OF THE RESOLUTE. Dr. Fessenden N, Otis read a paper before the His- torical Society on the restoration of the Arctic ship Res- olute by the government of the United States to Her Majesty the Queen of England. He briefly referred to the different search parties which sailed in the hope of rescuing Sir John Franklin and his crews between 1850 and 1852, ending with the expedition un- der Sir Edward Belcher, Of this expedition the Resolute was one ship, Dr. Otis de- scribed the abandonment of the vessels .in the Arctic seas; but said that one of them, the Resolute, was destined to play a high part in the comity of nations. He then traced the history of the finding of the ship by the whaleship George Henry, giving a succinct account of her condition and the voyage to the United States. Congress, with rare generosity, determined to buy her from the salvors and return her to the British govermment fully repaired and equipped. She was refitted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and sent to England under the command of Commander Henry J. Hartstene, who was then @ great favorite on account of his successful Arctic yoyago and the rescue of Dr. Kane and his party at Uppernavik. Dr. Otis then deacribed the voyage and its perils, the urrival of the vessel at Spithead, and the welcome hospitalities and honors which awaited her commander. He gave an elaborate account of the visit of the Queen to the vessel at Cowes and of ‘her reception by Commander Hartstene, of the officer's visit to Osborne House and of the formal transfer of the vessel. ‘Che paper had interost as the story of an unusual episode in the history of nations. REY. J. M, BUCKLEY ON QUACKERY. Rev. J. M. Buckley, of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, lectured last evening in the Fifteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church on the subject of “‘Quacks” before a considerable audi- dence. He pitched severely into the clasa of Spirit- ualists, clairvoyants, astrologers and necromancers who pretend to do things through super- natuYAl agencies, and insisted on the the- ory thst nothing is done of which the senses, or some of them, are unconscious. Shakespeare speaks about the midnight hags upon the weird heath, but that is a poctical conceit, and the Bible alludes to the practice of witchcraft among the Jews, but Moses did not believe in it, though he saw that the people were disposed that way, and the custom was prohibited by him. All the witches of antiquity belonged to two classes, either those that believed in themselves or those that mude it a@ business and a pretenge of supernatural powers to impose upon their credulous believers. All the instances of witchcraft we are aware of arise trom a belief ready to bea farce to the transpiring of scpernetnrs: effects. There are over a hundred and fifty people in this city to-day making their living by witchcraft, and perhaps twice as many in the city of Boston. In the maiter of magic, there was Heller; but what was he to Houdin, who vas sent to Algiers by Napoleon ? and yet Houdin’s hum- bug was exposed and laughed at in the long run. Magic, up to 300 years ago, made the rulers of Europe’ tremble, taking up the question of second sight, “What a simple thing it is,” said the speaker, and then he went on to say that,, by o combination of sounds and syllables, ths thing was quite feasible. He explained that Robert Heller never allowed anyboay but himself to ask his sister any quéstions in his second sight performances because it would have broken the combination of sounds, syllables and letters that they understood between them and were indispensable to their acting: About clairvoyants he said the two kinds—the sympathetic and the perceptive; but he would give away everything he had in the world to see a single instance where the clairvoyants ever did anything outside of the senses. He referred to Henry Slade, who lived like a duke in this city on the proceeds of his humbug clairvoy- ance, and he visited him one day and handed hima lock of hair of hia own, saying it was that of a female, and when Slade threw himself into a clairvoyant state he said the hair belonged to a lady who was a relative of his; and then he had a imusical séance with Slade and found him a fraud of the most eminent quality. He related how he took the samo hair he submitted to Slade to a woman in Newark who professed to be a great clairvoyant, and she pre- dicated on the strength of it all the diseases the woman who owned the hair ever suffered from. The lecturer explained how the fact of coincidences happening every day in the year, along with other things, are so observed and studied up by the clairyoyants and astrologers that they have a chante of makin; good guess at least one time out often. The speaker went along in a rapid manner to tell of alot of humbugs he met in his day in the medical, clairvoyant and other lines, and showed how small their pretensions were to either scientific or supernatural power. THE GEV, THOMAS ARMITAGE ON LAY PREACH- ING. ‘The first of a series of lectures, which are to be given during the winter, before the students of the Lay College of Dr. ‘Talmage’s ‘Tabernacle, Brooklyn, .Was delivered last night by the Rev. Thomas Anmitage, D. D., of this city, Mr. John F’, Henry, President of the Board of Trustees of the col- lego, presided. ‘There was a small audicnce, but its attention to the address through- out was perfect, he speaker announced his subject to be “Lay Preaching.” Primarily the word clergy signifies # fragment Inid aside from other tragments, and it implies alot or an order of a sacred character, and the clergyman signifies a man set apart us a sacred calling. The word lay signi- ties lewd or loose primarily, and relatively all those who do not belong w the privileged class known as the clorgy. We understand the words nowadays conyentionally, A preacher ix simply teller of good news of tidings. The word ini- plies an order of work more than an order of men. We can searcely $y if in noting lay preaching we say that there is not a person on the face of the h in whom there docs not exist ecessity tor such preaching. You cannot find ok where you cannot tell the story of the loving Mi who died on the treo, It knows nothing of the national, geographical or local. It lives in repub- lics and monarchies. ‘There not a more hard. working mu in world than the American ministry, is utterly fm. cable and impossible the ministers, to undertake to imvade the field of lay preaching. Who are, then, thegproper persons to do the work of lay prewcbing for those who need it? Why, inanifestly, lay preachers, Who may be lay preachers? | Any one, What human meme | does any man need to tell the good news of Christ? God's ancient priests needed special authority tn making swcritices and doing the set ordivances, Man's priests need special authority to minister to. men as from Christ, But any twin who has the grace of God in his heart has the right to tell it. Dr. Armitage then drew illustrations rrom the Scriptures, Philip, he said, was a noble specimen of a lay even: gelist in the church of God. His tnjanction to lay students was:—While you do not fuil to do all your work as a lay welist, stop there. Cio, invite the thnid to crouch with you st the foot of the Cross end leave the profundities of the imetaphysiciau; appeal to the xympathies in the huoian breast aud you will win souls to Christ. and it for Mu. N, G. KEITH ON THE USES OF ELECTRICITY, About one hundred persons were assembled last evening in the room of the Academy of the Useful Arte, in the Cooper Institute. A pa per was read by Dr. Piatt on “Familiar Poisons.” It disclosed few new facts, and had a suspicious flavor of the encyclopedia und the materia medica, He laid down one startling dogina to the effect that when people are disposed to com- iit suieide their deaths would be a good to socicty. Mr. N, 8. Keith was then called forward aud began what he styled a lecture on “The Industvial Applica- tions of Hlectricit, it was little more then a recital of what is already generally known ou the subject. Several allusions were made to the electric light, bat its ultimate perfection was neither affirme?! nor questioned, He recognized the gradually yrowing importance of the experiments which are Deng made, but confined himself to a general description of the ropa, and action of the y n active energy in nature. utilizing it the great problem was to — overcome the resistance of matter. In the olectric light the point of greatest resistance was the voltaic arc, which cunsisted of the vapor formed by the heat of com- bustion. It is evident that the obviating of this heat must greatly lessen the resistance and thus do uway with one of the main difficulties in the way of using electricity for general lighting purposes. MR. CHARLES PERSINS ON THE ¥CLUBE OF ART IN AMER ‘The last of a course of six lectures on art was deliv- ered last night at Association Hall by Mr. Charles Pex” kins before about a couple of hunired people. The lecturer Wes announced to talk upowThe Future of Art in the United States,” and ‘he led up to his subject by giving his auditors a yery elaborate history of art in the early days, also calling attention to the clements that appeared to govern its progress. He was evi- dently of the opinion that art wes uot_a creature of spasmodic ch, but rather the gradual result to be obtained from: artistic surroundings, and, xdvo- cated the buildig up of museums and art galleries, where those artistically indtined could roum with freedom and study the handiwork of the old masters. In conclusion, Mr. Perkins expressed great fuith in a brilliant future for art in the United States, THE TEMPERANCE REVIVAL. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETINGS OF THE MURPHYITES YESTERDAY—-PLANS FOR A VIGOROUS CAM- PAIGN AGAINST THE RUM DEMON ANNOUNCED, ‘The blue ribbon movement in dis city under the leadership of Frane!s Murphy, so far from being on the decline, is extending right and left and with mar- vellous rapidity, Mr. Murphy attended three mect- ings yesterday—a prayer meeting at noon in Grand Central Hall, Seventh avenue, just above Thirty-fourth street, and a gospel temperance meeting at the same place in the ovening. The third was in the Methodist Free Tabernacle, Thirty-fourth strect, be- | tween Seventh and Eighth avenues. All of these meetings were crowded, and tho utmost earnestness was manifested. At the noonday prayer meeting a number of clergymen were present; among them being Roy. Drs, King, Woodruff ang Searles, ‘The feature of the mecting, howover, was the recital of the experi- ence of Mr. Parker, aman who for years had been a terrible drunkard, but who had reformed through the impressions made upon him by Mr. Murphy. ‘The temperance apostle attended'the Free "Tabernucle first last evening. He was in better voice and ap- parently in better spirits than at any time during tue last woek, He was not at all demonstrative in his remarks, but spoke with marked feeling and effect. Tho decided manner in which he gave it to be understood that this movement was utterly and totally non-sectarian produced a de- cidedly favorable impression, and the tribute he paid to Father Matthew, who first brought temperance into the Church, was proof that at least he was not bigoted, He said he uever saw a more beautiful sight than the members of the Father Matthew Temperance Society coming forward in their regalia to the altar to receive the blessed sacrament. He told the story of the saving of Mr. Eccles Robinson, his co-laborer, and then introduced him to speak for himself, Speeches were also made by Mr, Thomas Pittman and the Rev. Mr, Vine, the English evangelist. GRAND C¥NTRAL HALL, At Grand Central Hall the throng was as dense as on Monday evening, and Mr. Murphy was almost torn to pieces in forcing his way through the long passageway leading to it. ‘The meeting n or- ganized by Mr. Caldwell, the converted hotel keeper of Elmira, who, with Dr. Rankin and Mr. Ryan, of Pittsburg, entertained the au- dience until the great attraction arrived. Mr. Murphy seemed electrified as he stepped to the edge of the platform. “I bring you good tidings. ‘Tho morning light is breaking—the darkness disappears. ‘The victory is with us, men, Don't be discouraged, Before going any further let us sing. Let us take the side out of this house. We cast our all into this movement—our heuris, our hopes, our lives; sink or swim, We have launched the gos- pel temperance ship, and thank God we have & captain at the’ helm who, though the night be dark, will steer us into port in safety.” Hoe spoke at length of the great evil of slavery, which cost 80 much blood and treasure before the terrible wrong was righted, and showed that intemperance was inaking greater havoc even than the late war. Early in the evening it was announced that a gentle- man in the audience, who would not give his name, had given $20 toward the causo; later on that he had given twenty more, and toward the close twenty more, making sixty in all. When the call for signers to the ledge was made, men, women and children pressed forward in great numbers. Mr. Murphy wished it particularly understood that mectings would be held every night this week at Grand Central Hull and at the Methoaist Free Tabernacle, and then stated that Cooper Union ‘Hall had been taken for an indefinite period, com- mencing next Sundsy night and lasting at least throughout the week. A small admission fee will be charged on Sunday evening, but the week night meet- ings will be free. SONS OF TEMPERANCE MOVING—ARRANGEMENT FOR A SERLES OF PUBLIC MEETINGS, ‘There was @ very iarge attendance last evening at the church of Rev. W. B, Affleck, in Eleventh street, near Third avenue, for the inauguration of a series of grand public temperance meetings, under the auspices of the Mercantile Division No. 10, Sons of Temperance. It was announced that the following advocates of total abstinence would in the course of the series attend and take part in the exercises:—Rev. Theodore L, Cuyler, D. D., of Brooklyn; Revs. J. Hyatt Smith, W. C. Steele, P. G. W. P.; John Parker, Lindsay Parker, C. W. Miller, T, De Witt Talmage and Joseph Odell, ail from Brooklyn; and from New York the tollowing reverend gentlemen :—R. 8. MacArthur, R. B, Hull, Stephen Merritt, A. H. Moment, F. Mar- ling, Dr. Newman, Dr. Corry and Hon. . C. Leigh. The services were to be made attractive by special music by a large choir. Before the commencement of the services a temper- ance paper was distributed to the audience, on the first page of which was a portrait of John B, Gough, the temperance orator. Contrary to the expectation of the wudience Mr. Talmage did not appear, but the first exercises were commenced by # prayer by brother Harvey Wood, who said ‘that God was a God of mercy and anything asked in His name should be done unto us, May people feel that this church was the house of God and that many should be rescued from perishing. Lord bless the coming meetings.” A member of the Mercantile Division said they first metdown town, but they made up their minds to come further up and take that part of the city by storm, MR. APPLECK’S RIIMANKS. He thanked the previous speaker for the appoint- ment of him by the Mercantile Pivision as com- mander, Ho said be had been a drunkard and could not meddle with intoxicating liquors, even tor sacra- roental purposes. die made a standard for himeelf, but he did not say that others should not use intoxi- cating liquors in the sacred wine. Total abstinence for the poor drunkard is onr doctrine and prohibition to the dealer, Whoever signs our temperance pledge we put them into beok and we will have a man for every name there, and if nobody looks after them I will do it myeelf. . Key. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, the well known champion of temperance, was greeted With loud ap- plause, and said that Kev. Mr. Affleck came to Brook- lyn and asked him to give a first push to the ball which should rollonandon. “I want to know,"’ he said, “if there is anybody in this house who has not been cursed by the Lottie, felt the stiug of the pent in some way? ‘There that has not been eursed by it. learned to hate it in my boyhood, having been brought up by # good old Christian mother she taught me to hate it. I have suffered in my own kith and kin. Lhate the dram shop. Imean by that the marble hotel as well as the ‘k cellar, from which the sot stumbiex upon the sidewalk. We never can make any headway unless we make war upon these marble hotels as well as on the humiblest, as well as the common dens where liquor is sold.” A LITTLE TEA PARTY. ‘There was given at Clarendon Hall, No. 114 Kast Thirteenth str last evening, what was called a “Toe Party,” under the auspices of the American Temperance Union, A nuniber of tables were stretched the length of the room, and at the time of the opening of the proceedings nearly all the seals were filled, seventy-five per cent of those present, however, being of the gentler sex, efors the tea drinking commence thero wi select musical and literary entertainment, consist- ing of songs, recitations and piano solos, Will iam H. Mundy, the temperance lawyer, presided, and annotaced the programme ot the evening. Professor Pently sang “Faces We Shall Nevor Forget.” and he was followed in # recitation by Mr. Vallavau called “The Drunkard’s Dream.” ‘Thees ot the young luties of the Temperance Union choir oxeented a piece on the piano for six hands, and then the party were freated to another recitati: d “The Two Vaga- ‘There were other recitations by Miss Annie jiug and Mrs. Carter, and music, and then Mr. Mundy announced to the as. sorublige that tea was toady. AM seemed io enjoy the repast. In the course of the evening Mr. Munday said that he was delighted to ace the number of temperance “al bonds,” by William Mavon Evans, people thet were present, and hoped the ‘tem nce Union would be able to give one of these parties at least every, month. In regard to hinself, also, jie Wished to suy something. ‘To-morrow 1 will meet my enemies in pitched battle, sald ho, ‘and if go down it will not he without giving them a square fight, [feel he continu ‘that Twill be able to prove that every word ered in the papers against me lately ig fale, infanonsly false, and but the inspiration of the ovil one.” With this Little speceh Mr, Mundy sat down tea drinking continned for au hour or #0, and then there was singing by Professor Weeks and more music and recitations, und the party was over. MUNDY SAYS HE DIDN'D, AND WANTS TO PROVE it IN COURT—AN IRATE APOSTLE OF TKM- PERANCE. Both sides of the Mundy-Mullin difiicalty have been given to the public through the press, but the temperance apostle is not satistied with a simple de- i | tributed to him by Mullin that Mundy drank six or | he way | had taken beer in his establishment, but Farmenich | push tho road to tie Hurl nial of Mullin’s statement. In his own words he is “on @ fishing excursion” to get the mutter into court and seeure the testimgny under oath of Tarmonich as to whether og pot the statgpemt & seven glasses of beer in his place on Saturday last is true. With this object in view Mr. Myndy yesterday called upon Judge Kilbreth, at the Tombs Police Court and asked for a subpana for Parmenieh. “What is it all about?” asked the Judge, taking from Mr, Mundy a copy of Sunday's Henatp and reading Mr. Mullin’s account of the way he pum- melled Mr. Mundy, “That's not it; it's the episode,” said Mr. Mundy, calting attention to Mullin’s account of how ally discovered that the tempe: retular customer of Parmenich’ sider it libellous and injw The man does not know me. ay Why, L sent from my office to his saloon to have him come up and seo me about it, There were severa! gentlemen present at the time, and I retired to a private office before Farmenich came in, They asked him if he knew we and he said “no.” Then I saw him and asked the same quextiol «4 he told me he did not remember having ever seen me, ‘ked him if he would make such a statement under outh, and he replied he would; but whea fcalled upon him to do so he said dto see Mullin frst. I had no objection, of | dhe went to see Mullin. Now he tells me lin told him to sign no paper nor make any ut I wish to compel him to answer under oath. Judge Kitbreth issued a subpoena calling upon Farmenich to wppear this afternoon at three o'clock. ‘Mr. Mundy explained to the reporter that he boro no ill will to the papers in the matter, but contended that a denial did not always reach the people who had read an original statement, and he owed it to himself to setile the question fo their satisfaction, He thought man in his position who would be guilty of drinking beer a fit candidate for Sing Sing. Dwelling on the manner of Mullin’s attack upon-kim he waxed warm, und ex- pressed regret that he did not havo a pistol with him at the tine, ax he might have settled the trouble then und there, A reporter calle? on Mr, Farmenieh to inquire what foundation there was in the rumor that Mr. Mundy positively declined to give any information on the subject. THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN GIVES PERMISSION TO THE FORTY-SECOND STREET, MANHATTANVILLE AND 81, NICHOLAS AVENUE RALLROAD TO ALTER THEIR ROUTE AND EXTEND THEIR TRACK, The report of the Aldermanic Committee on Rail- roads in fayor of permitting the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St, Nicholas Avenue Railroad Company to extend their tracks through Broadway, Seventh ayenue and the Boulevard occupied con- siderable time at yesterday's session of the Board. |. ‘This committee consists cf Messrs, Reilly, Guntzer and Phillips, The peculiar document sets forth at length the roasons advanced for the construction of the road, and then goes on to siy :— THE REPORT. “Since the extension of the rail of the Fourth avenue city line from Forty-second street to Eighty-sixth street, on Madison avenue, the en- tire tract of land has been built upon with first class residences, many of them rivaling the palaces on Fifth avenue.” It further sets forth the benefit which would accrue to property by the establishment of the road and the great convenience it would prove to residents along its line, and concludes as follow “It is qnly necessary that the consent of the corpo- rate authorities should be given to set this desirable and beyeficial progress in motion, No time should be lost in giving consent. The times are propitious. ‘The country is just emerging from a monetary crisis and businoss depression the like of which has never been witnessed in any other country, and our citizens have suffered more than their proportionate ehare, Enterprises like this that prom- ise such abundant success should be encouraged, thereby adding #0 much to the prospect of better and me prosperity now dawning upon our people. his company agrees to pay three per cent of its gross sreceipts into the city treasury for the privilege th ask. This is certainly a very liberal offer and shoul be at once accepted. In every aspect of the case, there- fore, as viewed by your committee, they believe it to be for the*best interests of the te Meo the permis- sion to. construct the railway granted. They believe it would be in thé interest of tho city to construct the railway at the ex) ‘pense of the public if inno other way could it be built; they think it would have been decidedly a paying investment had it built such a means of communica- tion twenty or more years ago. Had such an enter- prise been accomplished then the west side would ow ba as thickly populated us the eust side and the centre of the city, and the increased yalue of the property thus benefited, wpart from any other consideration, would have yielded to the city the cost ‘of the and left a large margin besides: In the opinion of our committee all franchises of this character should be sok at ‘public action to the highest responsible bidder, but as this company rs to have a fran- chise from the State Legislature the Common Council are powerless in this instance to dispose of the frau- chise in this je THE FRANCHISE GRANTED. ‘ ML comcnge to the report was the following resolu- es Resolved, That permission is hereby granted to the Forty- second Street, Mamhattanville aud St. Nicholas Avenuo Railroad Comps to alter or change its route so as te com- mence at the authorized tracks of suld company ou through double tracks, along HBroad- MS parr street, at the Boulevard, thence an the with thence aloug Boulevard, Broadway; through + with double tracks, to Seveuth avenue; thence through and slong Seveuth jevenue with doable tracks ta connect with the track of said company, proposed to be lnid in Forty-second street, provided that’ one of the tracks on the Boulevard be laid to the nd the other to the west side of the Boulevard Parks in the c: and as near to said Boulevard practicable; provided, Curther, that no add that allowed by the original grant be charge e a qnenee of suid alteration or change of route. And in con- sideration of the permission heveby granted pany shall annually, on the Ist year, pay into the treasury of per vent of the gross recolpts o tof suid gross receipts shall be determined by statement of the Mahon pe and treasurer of ‘said company by the Comptroller of the etty of New York; and Cm a Cae the — said” Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and ‘ Kailroxd Company shall at their repair and keep in. order tho ya hereby given shall be upon the furtl the road ‘ad shall be built equipped two years from the approval of this resolution by. t Mayor, unless prevented vy legal proceodings, in. which ncted from the’ said two hereby given; new and first asad, 10 be eu re, subject, i the delay shall be t owed rail Alderman Sauer spoke in advocacy of the report, d Alderman Morris suggested that-the time for leting the road shouid be lunited to one year dl of two. ‘This amendment was adopted. On the suggestion of the same gentleman an amendment was also adopted requiring the company to keep not only the inside of their track, bat @ space ot two feot from the outer rails in proper repair and with the same material with which the bouievard may be paved. A resolution of Mr, Morris, requiring the coi- pany to pay alicense fee of $25 ‘for each one-horse car and $50 for each two-horse car, was defeated, ‘The resolution, as amended, was then passed by the following vote: ¥ Yras—Aldermen Bennett, Bigtia, tor, Gedney, er, 1 Keon, Kiernan, Phillips, Reilly, Sauer, Slevin dnd Waohne: Navs—Aldermon Jacobus, Lewis, Morris, Perley, Pinck- ney, Sheils aad Roberts. RAPID ‘TRANSIT PROGRESS. ‘The Metropolitan Elevated Railroad purchased yes torday the two blocks of ground—I128 lots—extending from IM4ch to 146th streets and from Seventh to Kighth avenue, which are to be ured for machine and repair shops when the road is continued to High Bridge’ ‘The price wax stated to be about $250,000, purchase is geuerally regarded as u gratitying nent of the sineere purpose of the company t jem River as soon us prac- Carroll, Ehrhart, Fos: ticable, GTS ER ei Cah AGNES HEIDEN AGAIN, Misa Agnes Heiden, the Paterson (N. J.) girl who gained so much notoriety in connection with Colonel Leroy Beaumont, the opium eater and hero of innu. merable attempis at wnieide, and for assaulting whom the Colonel wus seat to pr n, is again before the courts. Her mother visited Noah Hampson’s saloon, on Sunday, and while there some remark reflecting on Agnes. ran home and came bac accompanied by het husband and, daughter, the latte tying a marriage certificate (o show that she was wedded to George Southoff in thia city on November 1 last, ‘Then followed # diseitesion and during which the He sted from They went be order and y with violating the law in selling in Sunday. ‘Ch « Was tried yesterday end tue Kecorder dismissed the complaint against Hampson and held Mrs, Heiden in $10) bain for assaulting Hampson. CORNELIUS VANDERBILI'S SUI. In Supreme Court, Circuit, before Judge Lawrence, yesterday, Mr, Scott Lord, as counsel! for Cornelius J. ‘anderbilt, moved to have the latter's case against his brother, William H., to recover $1,000,000, placed on the day ealondar of the court. ‘Lhe application was opposed oa the ground of engagements of de- fendant’s counsel, and also on the propricty of await- ing a decision in the coutost over the will. This suit, as already frou techy stated, is based on the alleged promise of William H. Vanderbilt to pay Cornelius J. in Paterson, one made a mother the stm claimed not to oppose the probate of the will. Decision on the motion was reserved, OFF TO AFRICA. THE BARK MONROVIA WITH EMIGRANTS TO LIBERIA A PALK WITH THE EX-ATLORNET GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC. The new American bark Monrovia left pier 19 Bast River yesterday bound for the port utter which she was named, and which is the espital of the Liberian Republic. The passeager list comprised five cabin and thirty-one stecrage passengers, all colored, whose friends assembled in large at the dock from which the vessel s L. , Richardson, who formerly commanded tho bark Libevia, stated that he expects to meke the ran ia his now vessel ip about thirty-five days. Zhe principal items of mex chandise on the bark’s :aanifest are Lobaceo, provis sions and dry goods, Of the colored passeagers foun teen are from Boston aud the remainder from the Southern States. A leading man among the departing Africans was Mr. W. M, Davis, ex-Attornoy General of the Liberian Republic, a man about forty-five years of age, and @ lawyer by profession, He is a native of Pennsylvania, and went to Liberia with his parents in 1852. Remain- ing for six years in Africa he returned to the United States, taking up his abode in Bostou, where he ate tended school for three years, and studied law for couple tore in the office of Messrs. Rice & Neil- SAILS son. He sailed agsin to Monrovia just after the uttack * on Fort Sumter, remained there for seventeen years and became Attorney General of the Republic. “Ave there many lawyers out there, Mr. Davis?’ asked a reporter of the HexaL, “Oh, yes; there ure a good many. tion of about twe dozen lawyers who In our popula ve thousand there are half a ould pass to the Bar here, and three or four of these would be able to practice any- where,’’ LIFE IN LIBERIA, Mr. Davis gave an account of the workings of the federal system of government as practised in Liberia, Mr. A. W. Gardner, a Virginian by birth, the present President, went into office last January, having been elected for the usual term of two years. There is now a party in the Republic agitating a longer term of office, thinking. that the Chief Executive of Liberia, like that of ‘the United . should be in office four years. The Liberians doa lirge trade with England and an insignificant one with the United States, The Eng- lish have two outward und two homeward bound steamers that call at Monrovia every month. The exports consist chiefly of palm oil, ‘cocoanuts, dye woods, ivory (in large quantitics), sugar, coffee, gin- ger, arrow root, indio, rubber and beeswax, There are about one hundred white people in Liberia, rey resenting various uationalities—American, French, Germun, Dutch, Portuguese and English. . These peo- ple are either connected with the missions or are merchants. Some firtus there have as many as four or tive large vessels engaged in the Liberian trade.’* “Do the colored peopte of the United States like to live out there?” “They do,” replied Mr. Davis, “after becoming ac- climated. Then they prefer it, but if they get dis usted because of fever or other sickness, and return: fore they get through the process of ‘acclimatizae tion, they bring back fearful accounts of the country, The aborigines are by degrees adapting thom- selves to habits of civilized lite, Ifa man out there takes to civilized ideas he must be employed in some occupation depending on his new coudition, and as, through want of employment, this cannot al- ways be done, those who want to become civ- ilized cannot always foliow their inclinations, The Christianizing process would be more rapid if there were school for the education ef native women. As things now stand the civilized men cannot get wives among the American portion of the population. Besides, if these educated men go back to their native villages seeking heathen wives they will have to live there with those women, aad their usefulness will thus be curtailed. In some cused, however, educated aborigines have married American born women,” BRUDISH INTRIGUING. At this point of the conversation Mr. Davis said, suddeut!, “Now, as the Hrnaip is the greatest newspaper eee in the United Stutes, I wish you would spread re the American people this idea:—The progress and Ly aed of Liberia have been to a great degree retarded because of the intrigues of the British trad- eYs on our coasts, lnsslenping the natives to make war upon us, to deny our right of domain to territory which they and their forefathers sold to us for legal consideration and 1 embarrassing the operation of our revenue laws. Seme yeurs ago we purchased territory on our northwest boundary for which we hold deeds signed be sa local native chiefs und wit- nessed by two Eughsh officials then present. This is so fur admitted by the English goyern- ment that on the ‘charis of the coast isuued by tho Admiralty they- specify the John River as our northwest boundary, aud on these charts have even specified the dates on which the several sections were acquired some twenty-tive or thirty years ago. All but one of the chiefs who exe- cut these deeds being dead, and he the most in- terior them, the British traders induced him and the successors ofthe dead leaders to deny that the country had been sold to us, and to assert that they oniy gave us a right to trade in it. The Ly traders then got contracts trom the new chiefs to allow them the right of trading there. Having ac- quired this right the English established tradin, tagories in the territory and flooded the land wit joods on which uo revenue had been paid, sq that the Liberians and tue to: traders rosi- dent in the Republic conld ‘not compete with the. british because they The surviving. chief who had had to pay duties, signed the deed of purchase was jostigated to make war upon the chiefs friendly to us. In Lx6¥ we got up an ex ition for the bie “ge ee por friends: of punish. ing Prince Maush, who, finding us too strong for him, destroyed the British’ factory as a means of getting Liberia into trouble with the English govern- mout. ‘The English traders complained to their Governor wt Sierra Leone, claiming that the Liberi- ans had destroyed the property. ‘the Governor de- manded that ‘# commissioner should be sent to him trom Monrovia, but the Liberian government, not willing to appear as defendant befure a British tribunal, declined to s any communicated with the London Cabinet. Its -mem- bers were so influenced by the reports of the Gover- nor of Sierra Leoue that they referred the whole mat- ter back to him and ordered two war vessels to Mon- rovia to enforce his decision, whatever it might be. ‘The officer in command demanded payment of the Sierra Leone claims forthwith, and the Liberiaus were obliged to pay stich portion of the money as - couid be collected ou the spot and give bonds for the rewainder. In 1874 1 was sent witu $18,009 gold to pay the balance of the damages at Sierra Leone, but I saved $4,090 to the country by not paying the interest.” ‘NO AID FROM THE UNITED STATES, “Why did not, Liberia xppeal to the United States for wid?” “What could we do? The United States would not recognize Us a8 ¥ colony nor concede us protection in our rights as citizens. Since that time it hus been agreed that the question of the disputed territory should be settled by arbitration between England and Liberia, and that the United States should appoint an Vnpire. All this has been done, and the Commission Will mect next month at Sierra Leone.” With regard to remuneration for labor, Mr. Davia said “that tradesmon, such as carpenters, yet $2 a day, which they usally stipulate shall be paid in gold om " ‘There are plenty of greenbacks in Libe- dl they are preterved to gold. They are ine 4 there by merchants and missionaries, salaries of the latter are, to a - large amount, paid in drafts convertible into United States currency, and this sort of money is greatly pre- ferred. ‘The paper cnrrency of the country, whien is about fifty per ecnt below gold par value, is receiva- ble zor ali sorts of taxes, dues, Custom House dutios and the like. The notes were printed in We would have much preferred Wo have them made in America, but ¢ untcation with England is eusier, ‘There is a continuous stream of eamigrution to Lis beria, The reason of this outgoing ix that, in spite of the laws, colored inca cannot get equal rights with the white citizens in the United States, particularly at the South, Very Strong lines still mark the differ. ence between the races, aud in any country where two peoples live together without intermarrying one of them must be servile and the other dominant. The colored people prefer equal rights ina small aud weal country to unequal ones ia @ larye and powerful nation.” A CUP OF HOT TEA, Louis Lochiman keeps a boer saloon on Second ave nue and Las 4 pretty daughter named Louise, Will. iam Hallett is a fire insurance agont who lives at No. 1,205 Lexington avenue and has a friend who stable @ horse in the rear of Lochwan's saloon, On the 4th of November last William went to the stable to see his friend's horse, and while there was taken ill, The pretty Louise took compassion of him and in- vited him to take ~ cup of hot tea with her in her father's kitchen. The tea revived him quickly wnd he wes sbout to depart when the father of bowine, hed of his presence, hurricd to assist hin use, In doing so be handled William “lily, and the latter caused his arrest. The up for trial in the Court of Special Sessions yesterday, {t transpired that William was a married mun, and that on several occasions he had sw souchong With the fair Louis contrary to her ‘. injnnetion that he should not enter the house. The father admitted the asasult, and it was only left to the Court to tind him guilty. They did so, and imposed @ fine of one cent, which was us promptly remitted, BURKE AND VREELAND. Some time ago Henry Vreeland and William Burke, alias Baker, were arrested by Captain Byrne on & charge of complicity in the stealing of the remains of the late A. 'T. Stewart. Yesterday Assistant Distriet Attorney Russell sent into court a rey ot the testimony taken before Judge Moryan at the Jefferson Market Volive Gout, and upon that report wae ap indorsement requesting that Vreeland ve disc! there being no evidence to detain him. In the case of Burke tue indorsement suggested that he be held, there being another indictment againat him. Judge “Waa #0 ordered, Vreeland was set ut iberty. one, and ,