The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1878, Page 8

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DECI The probabilities are tut the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cloudy, with rain or snow und winds shifting from east to southwest. To-morrow it will be cloudy and cold, probably with snow and strong northwest winds. Wat Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active and somewhat stronger. J was quiet all day at 1001g. Government bond , States dull and railroads ir- regular. Mouey on call was easy at 3 per cent and closed at 21, a 3 per cent. Cuicaco is ahead this year—a blinding snow | storm last night. ts of a happy New Year TAMMAN are not ver. Srcrerary SHERMAN’S specie resumption cir- cular, elsewhere printed, foreshadows the golden dawn of the new y: Ir Wit Bu Sen from our reports of Con- gress that the Geneva Award bill is an exciting topic for some Congressmen. G With unusual severity in {l village thirty-six out of thirty-seven persons have died. Crovera ts Ra Morocco. In one si Bank bill, and the last hope of a grand *‘divide” has vanished for the robbers. Tne Uxrrecer EDLY LakGe Business of the money department of the city Post Office last Friday is one of the favorable signs of the times. Campana anp O'Leary begin their little trip a week from tomorrow. The silver quarters at the box offiee will make pretty good Christmas chimes. Corieer Men will be interested in the an- xent of the reorganization of the old rsity Club, which wasso flourishing twelve or fifteen yea Tae Fears that the i crop may run short this season are not shared by the ice men. Last year the supply irom the Upper Hudson was not gathered until February. Oxy or THY Best Tutxes Congress can do before the holiday adjournment is to pass the Postal Car Deticieney bill, which the Appro- | priations Committee eed to y lay. Grorota bas hit upon a new financial idea— the issue of four per cent bonds, in denomina- tions as low as five dollars and the same size as tive-dollar bill. It is believed they will cirax late as eurreney. Ir a Brookiyn Joper statute error the 1875 has repealed the one thousand exemption from the taxation els of property owned by members of the Na- is not in of ause in the tional Guard. THe Svecestion that Senator Thurman should inary step to the Presidential nomination, does not ¢ run for Governor in Ohio next year, as a prelim- | stly meet his views. He declines to zo | on the Presidential track in that way, CaNapa is pr yicing over the departure for Lugland of the gentleman of the new Governor General's suite, who, it appears, was respousible tor the famous low neck dress order. The iim- ; perial court etiquette had a sbort run. Tuk Weatnkr.—The low ssure observed | some days ago to be advaneing from the Southwest has moved over the Mississippi into | the Ohio Valley and lake region, preceded and attended by light rains and snows and followed by high and eold vortherly and northwesterly winds. The pressare continues high in the | Northwest and West, the upper lake region and | that of the St, Lawrence Valley. It is also rela- | tively high in the Southeastern States, in Texas | 4 along the Gut coast, exeept between | Florida and the Mississippi, where it is low, within harrow extending southward from the lower oe districts. ‘The pressure is also relative! off Nova Scotia. Tene peratures have risen oon the Eastern counts ane States, but have | fallen sharply yrihwest, the West | and Southwest. strong to high ou t const. tw brisk and strong lukes and onthe western aud southern | f the area of disturbance. There are s that another depression will soon ad- | from the Northwest, where, although the | barometer is quite high, there are changes in | progress fhe weather on the British coasts | shows that the storm which passed over these | States is approaching Earepe. At Seilly an east- | erly gale prevails, with a barometer at 29.30 at Pivinouth the wind is fresh from the north-noreast, with the barometer at 20.53 inches. Balmonth and lolyhead Lave north exetandeast winds, respectively, ‘The weather in New York and its vieiuity today will be cloudy, with rain or snow, aud winds slilting from east | tu southwest, ‘To-morrow it will be cloudy and | cold, probably with suow and strong northwest winds, inches, NEW YORK HERALD, Troubles in Europe. Enceladus was thought to be troable in his slumbers and to toss uneasily in his painful repose when the fiery wrath of Etna tilled the heavensand startled the countries near, and for the disturbances of one vol- cano one ordinary giant was, doubtless, a sufficient cause, If the myth makers shall ever be tempted to account on that theory for the condition of Europé as it appears in these days what scores of giants they will be compelled to crowd under the politics of that restless conti- nent! In not one country is there even a truce of parties ; in most there stand in at- titudes of angry detiance forces far more ferocious than mere parties ever are, while in some the horizon is darkemed with dan- gers all the worse because it: is as yet only recognized that they are dangers and it is not clear how they are to be fought. Ger- many, Austria, Russia, England, France, ltaly and Turkey--all the great Powers, as defined by the Berlin Congres$—have ehar- acteristic troubles on hand, aad the present generation has not secn national tranquillity so universally disturbed, Here is the great German Empire with its capital in a state of siege—LBerlin to resort for the security of a sovereign’s life to that suspension of all ordinary liws upon which Paris was forced for a ceriain time as the consequence of the demoralization of a bloody and unsuccessful war. Bad govern- ment, taxes, the military Juggernaut, op- press the German people till they be- come as barbarous as the iron heel that treads then down. Germany overcame France at the expense of a military pressure on her own people that produced the social revolt, and in that she has on her hands a more formidable foe than France was, and she has no other inspiration in dealing with this trouble than an increase of those repressive laws that were one of the sources of the evil. Under the most arbitrary sys- tem in Europe—for even in Russia there is an opinion that limits the authority which is formally absolute; under a system where the citizen who has offended the govern- ment is completely at its mercy, as the Von Arnim case plainly showed—the govern- | ment has no imagination of a means to deal with discontent save a demand that the little formal limits to its authority which exist shall be set aside. With these formal limits set aside it comes boldly down on the known socialists and drives them out. It purges the country of those explosive spirits who blurt out their thoughts and make themselves known. But these are never the dangerous fellows, and those in whose minds the fire of this savage dissatisfaction smoulders are not driven out. Germany remained a divided country through all the ages when great monarchies grew in other European lands through the possession by the people of that very spirit with which the powers at Berlin are now in conflict. In France, in Spain, in England, in Russia even, the resistance of principali- ties, dukedoms and minor kingdoms was overcome and a monarchical unity arose on the ruins of local liberties in all those countries, but never in Germany. Dukes, grand dukes, princes, electors and kings— greater or smaller—have been the staple of German history always down to the time we live in; and before the war of 1866 the smallest of the dukes, with only revenues enough to maintain one regiment of in- fantry, was as much a sovereign as the | Hohenzollern. It was in the genius of the race that it should be so. Local sover- eignty, local tyranny even the people ac- cepted, but they repelled successfully all domination. It made them the victims of foreign foes, but preserved them from a national oppressor; and the foreign foe is a temporary, the other a permanent, evil. But the fancies of the French Revolution filled the young Ger- mans of that age with vague dreams of a common nationality and with the aspira- tion of a united and supreme Germany. Those dreams cleared the way for Bismarck and made the present Empire, which, by comparison with the old one, is what the United States is under its present constitu- tion compared to what it was under the original articles of confederation. Against | the pressure of that imperial system the nature of the people revolts now. Social- istic troubles are the exciting cause. The | real evil is the revolt of the people against a system in conflict with all their ideas, and a struggle must ensue—a struggle in which the people must be ruthlessly put down or through which they will reduce the gov- ernment to a liberal constitutional ma- | the different phases of insanity. chinery—a constitutional monarchy in name, a republic in fact, like England. It will ben conflict analagoas to that of 1645 | in English history. | Germany is therefore, perhaps, face to | face with the most portentous trouble that menaces any government in Eurupe, de- spite the triangalar difficulty that so chron- ically disturbs the relations between tussia, England and Turkey. Since May, | 1876, the English government has swaggered | through Europe, roaring out its purpose to | make itself felt in Continental politics, and | finally it has fought the Ameer of Cabul. If | one considers the grandiose style in which | the Prime Minister spoke of England's ware | like intentions some two years sitice by comparison with its recent warlike acts it | will be difficult not to agree with the Mar. | quis of Hartington that the so-called ‘spir- ited foreign policy” is, indeed, a very | abject foreign policy. But if England had | fought Russia to save ‘Lurkey she would have wanted a hundred thousand men at least, while she has tought the Ameer of | Cabal with about ten thousand; that she has, in fact, ‘hit a feilow | of her size.” With that adroitness for which he has a genius the English Premier has concealed the pitiful contrast between the he has mado and the threats he breathed by keeping up the de- lusion that in striking at the Ameer he was striking really at Russia, Me has played upon the Russophobia of the English peo- ple and fooled them to the top of their bent. But he was not at war, even in the most shadowy way, with Russia, and not fairly at war with the Ameer, whose let- ters, it they had been waited Jor, would have made a military movement unneces- sary. In Europe meanwhile Russia has 80 war | persons, 8 forced the Sultan to agree to make that def- inite treaty of which the one made at San Stefano was the preliminary; and that, ; perhaps, will become a sound basis of | peace between the two Powers, and is the more likely to become so, as the opposition is likely to keep the Beaconsfield govern- ment occupied at home. France, Italy and Austria have their troubles, also, while the sad Sultan, like the man who did not know where to begin his lubors and therefore went fishing, in- dulges himself in a change of Ministry ; they treat themselves te the same variety in Rome. France fights the reaction stardily, but is always compelled to fight | it; and in Italy, what with the revived hopes ofthe Church, the projects of electoral re- form and the recriminations of parties aceusing one another of murderous socia!- istic pringiples, politics are tremendously lively. Austria's latest difficulty is not a common,one in her history, In so far as the difficulty was an expression of the spirit of a virulent opposition it has pleaty of precedent everywhere; but it is very un- usual tor an opposition in Austria to be able to avail itself so effectively of coustitu- tional limitatious upon the power of the government, A Popular Military King. As Mr. Andrew H. Green has not yet ofti- cially notified us of his willingness to ac: cept or his intention to decline the Bulya- rian crown, the emergency of the case prompts us to offer to Bulgaria another can- didate. It is proper to say that Mr. Green's most intimate friends regard it as improba- ble that he will refuse any office, so that he may still be considered an available candi- date for the vacant throne. But the Bulga- rians are a fighting people, and while Mr. Green would, no doubt, supply them with a liberal amount of departmental wrangling that may not be the sort of warfare to which they are inclined. It is possible that they may prefer a military monarch to a civil roler. In that event we tender them the Cathedral’s hero, New York’s pride, the most popular military man in the Empire State, General Daniel D. Wylie, of the militia. General Wylie would ascend the Bulgarian throne, should he be chosen King, flushed with his last and, we believe, his first victory. He would bear at his side the trusty sword which he gallantly drew in the Cathedral conflict, when ballots were flying around as thick as hailstones in a winter's storm. His military fame will have preceded him to Bulgaria, and the enemies of the nation will scatter before the popular soldier who has defeated such distinguished generals as Grant and Sherman, Sheridan and Newton. Bulgaria may not long enjoy peace. She has somewhat troublesome neighbors, and her own people are not the most amiable, law-abiding and harmo- nious in the world. If Bulgaria should, unfortunately, be caught between two rival Powers, or if her citizens should feel dis- posed to indulge in a little civil throat cut- ting among themselves, King Daniel, who has on jormer occasions marched to the front, and King Daniel's sword, which has already been drawn in battle, will guard their rights and protect their lives and property. Doubtless the gallant army which fought on General Wylie’s side in the great Cathedral campaign will volunteer as a bodyguard under King Daniel’s banner and do good service in Bulgarian wars. It will be an honor to Bulgaria to be ruled over by the most popular military man in a nation which has furnished a Grant to an admiring world and which keeps such heroes as Sherman and Sheridan at home for everyday use. Our Pauper Lunatics. The statements made by Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell on behalf of the State Board of Charities to the Board of Apportionment concerning the insufficient accommodations for the insane poor in the city institutions deserve prompt consideration, The penal and charitable buildings on Blackwell's Island and Ward's Island are excellent so far as they go; but they are becoming too small for the increasing population of the city, and should be increased in capacity before the worst evils ot overcrowded insti- tutions compel attention to the subject. It is especially essential that the pauper luna ties shonld have ample room for health, cleanliness and a proper classification of ‘These un- fortunates onght to receive the most hamane treatment that can be extended to them. The recent developments at the Onondaga County {Poorhouse prove how ready public authorities may be to win acharacter for economy at the expense of humaniiy, and it would be deplorable if the insane paupers in New York should be subjected to the brutal treatment bestowed upon the same class in Onondaga county for the sake of | saving a few dollars of public expendi- ture. Sufficient appropriations should be | promptly made for the additional buildings and extensions suggested by Mrs. Lowell. The fact that we have twelve hundred in- sane pationts under the care of tho city in excess of the number that can be properly accommodated in the public institutions is enough to startle the community and to prove that the call for increased accomoda- tions does not come too soon. ‘There are many evils connected with the care wnd treatment of the city's paupers, sane andinsane. The management of the Department of C ies and Correction does not entirely command public confi- dence either ia point of efiicieney or of hon- esty. Some time ago it was shown that our pauper population, including aged invalids and infants, consumed more heeft and bread than would be dis- | posed of by the same number of able-bodied soldiers on active duty, .ecordiny to the ra- tion accounts, and yet got very little to eat according to their own accounts. Since then we are not aware that any reform has taken place in the department, and there is reason to believe that the quality of the food supplied at the asylums is as open to criticism as the quantity. But the build- ings have always been well cored for and creditably maintained, and it is to be hoped that no fear of « proper expenditure will prevent their being made fully equal to the increased demand upon them, Let us pro- vide suitable and ample accommodations | for all our unfortunate wards, and espe- rupt or inefficient management can be remedied in good time. Church or State—Which? A decision was rendered by Jadge Barrett in this city a few days ago which has not received that degreé of public attention that its importance warrants. It involves principles the very opposite of the American idea of the relation of Church and State. A brief recital of the facts will make this point clear. The Rey. Charles P. McCarthy, formerly a minister of the Established Church of England, embraced Universalism and came to the United States. Fora time he ministered in Albany, but subsequently occupied the pulpit of Bleecker Street Uni- versalist Church in this city during the absence in Europe of the Rey. E.C. Sweet- ser, Theological differeaces arose between the trustees of the church and Mr. MeCar- thy, and he was summarily dismissed before the expiration, as he alleged, of his contract. This led to furiher bickerings and suits about salary. Mr. Sweetser returned from Europe and laid charges against Mr. McCarthy for unminis- terial conduct before the State Universalist Committee on Discipline, Ordination and Fellowship. This committee suspended the accused, but he appealed to the civil courts, which compelled the removal of his suspension. His case was carried to the General Convention of the Universalist denomination, and by its authority he was disfellowshipped altogether from that body. He appealed again to the civil courts, and now, aitera litigation extending in one form or anuther over a period of three years, Judge Barrett restores him to fellow- ship and decides that the ecclesiastical authority of his church acted illegally when they cut him off. So that a common right which inheres in every club or soci- ety—the right to decide who shall be mem- bers and how long membership shall con- tinne—is denied to a large and respectable Christian denomination. Heretofore the civil courts im America, in such controver- sies, huve simply inquired, Whut is the law of the ecclesiastical judicatories? and have sustained the practice of such courts. If Judge Barrett or any other judge has a right to say who shall be ministers of the Universalist Church they have the same right to say who shall minister to the Methodist, Catholic or any other Christian body. And if the ecclesiastical relation of a minister can be thus decided why not of a simple member also? While Papal authorities are restricting the power of bishops to remove and depose their priests atgwill it is not likely that Americans are going to allow a judge to assume hierarchi- cal authority and force a minister upon a denomination that utterly discards and re- pudiates him. And we hope the Universal- ist body will take the case of Mr. McCarthy to the Court of Appeals and have it forever set at rest. The decision, as it now stands, isan anomaly in American jurisprudence, and is contrary to our republican ideas of the separation of Church and State, It is monstrous. School Board Extravagance. Some of our readers seem surprised that the Hrnraup should expect school janitors to know anything about ventilation. They say that janitors are employed to sweep rooms, make fires and do other low grade labor, and are not to be expected to attend to duties requiring a high order of intelligence. If this is also the opinion of the Board of Education the pay of jani- tors should at once be reduced to that of other sweeps and stokers. The janitors of our city schools average about a thousand dollarsa year. This is far better pay than the majority of teachers get, though any one of these can be depended upon to know a thermometer from a broom when they see them side by side. Engineers seldom get a thousand dollars a year, though a great deal of scientific knowledge is expected of them. The average income of skilled mechanics will not reach a thousand dollars a year, and the army sub- altern, with his West Point scientific educa- tion, does not get much more. If the pay of janitors is not to be reduced the standard of the service should be greatly raised and incompetent men weeded out at once. Were the Board of Education to fill these positions by competitive exumination there would be a hundred intelligent applicants for every building, It is bad enough to have interior positions in other depart. ments of the city administration filled by incompetents at salaries that good men would gladly accept, but it is worse than bad to keep acrowd of numskulls in em- ploy at high pay when human health and lite are the principal sufferers by their blunders. After the Pledge. Mr. Murphy, the temperance revivalist, offered enthusiastic temperance advocates a capital test for their own personal sin- cerity when he said that when some men give up drink and have no means of sub- stituting stimulating food and no friends to encourage them they are easily per- | suaded to return to their old ways, No man who has not been a drunkard or a close student of physiology can realize how tremendous an amount of force is neces- sary to the abandonment of liquor after its use has become continuous, There are other physical irregularities besides aleohol- ism which establish almost complete con- trol over the system, but there is a radical difference between these and drunkenness, Ali unnatural appetites weaken the system and sap that life principle upon which men must depend so largely when they attempt to reform; but, unlike all others, alcohol comes gradually to take the place and usurp the functions of life itself, and bereft of his physical resources. While drinking he was practically a serions inva- lid; reforming, he is just as much a sick man, though in a different and more hon- orablo way. He has literally to reform his entire physienl organization, Thanks to the dominion of mind over body, which not even alcohol can always destroy, and thanks, too, to the mysterious and beneficent infln- ence which religions belief and tempera- ment exert upon the physical nature, thero the reforming drinker finds himself at once | cially for the insane, and the faults of cor- | 'NDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1878—QUADRUPLE SHEET—WITH SUPPLEMENT. have been gained their lost manhood; but, taking men as they go, these cannot always be relied upon, for they cannot always be aroused. ‘The retorming drunkard needs to be well fed, so that he shall have as liitle reason as possible to feel the need of the old stimulus, and he needs all the mental cheer and teilowship that other men can supply. Where are they to come from? Ninety-nine out of every hundred drunkards are too poor to buy them; no temperance scciety supplies them. They can only be furnished by those who are charitably disposed and who sympathize with the drunkard. Most abstainers are in comfortable circumstances and many of them are rich. Cannot these ‘organize a brotheflood like many that are devoted to the spiritual needs of man, and watch the future of the pledged converts as closely and as generously as their cases demand? Financially there is nothing impossible in this suggestion, » As much money as New York has generously sent the stricken South during the past few months would save a large proportion of the men who without such aid ure absolutely sure to relupse into their old habits. If the temperance men of New York cannot do this they will still have a right to their present opinion of the dangers of drunken- ness, but the merest modesty should com- pel them to keep their principles to them- selves until they have honor and generosity enough to put them into practice. Diphthoria. The Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darm- stadt, better known as Princess Alice of England, died yesterday of diphtheria. Diphtheria is a malady of which a prin- cess ought not to die, for the simple reason that it is a preventable disease—a disease that must always prevail to some extent with those who, because of poverty or ig- norance, live amid emanations from sewers or other accumulations of filth, and which may spread from them within certain limits, but from which there should be an almost complete immunity for those whose homes may be surrounded with all the pre- cautions of sanitary science, But prin- cesses are under obligation to live in palaces, in ancient royal seats, between which and their high station there seems a necessary connection, and these old palaces, inhabited for centuries, con- structed at firsts in absolute defiance of all sanitary ideas in architecture, and contaminated by the emanations of twenty generations, are simply old death traps. In the Tombs Prison there are some cells that could not be made healthy if the North River was turned through them once in ten days, and those cells are perfect types of the rooms in half the old palaces and baronial homes in Europe. It will be remembered that the Prince of Wales got the typhoid fever by sleeping in a room under the floor of which was an old and forgotten cesspool, and Princess Alice and her child doubtless got their diphtheria in much the same way. Palpit Topies To-Day. ° The temperance cause seems to lead all others to-day. What with Mr. Murphy, Dr. Sabine, Judge Pitman, George F. Train, C. W. Sawyer and others the glories of cold water will be well sounded forth to-day. Advent sermons alsocontinue to be preached by Dr. Howland, on the voice in the wilder- ness; by Dr. Rylunce, on competition in business and social life; by Mr. Sweetser, on the adoration of the magi ; by Dr. Smith, on the second coming of Christ, but with special reference tothe Papal and Protes- tant apostasies, and the possible alliance between ultramontane Romanism and atheistic socialism beforehand; by Dr. Knapp, on Christ's coming, but with regard to his figurative and spiritual, or his per- sonal and visible appearance, and by Dr. Chapin, on Christ as a social force. Mr, Seward will maintain loyalty to the truth. Mr. Hatfield will utter the ery of the poor for bread, and show wherein there is hope for the criminal classes. Dr. Talmage will continue to paint the sooty side of city life. Dr. King will talk about tithes, and Dr. Tyng about the mountains of Israel. Mrs. Brig- ham will spiritualize Peter's vision of the unclean beasts, and Mr. Affleck will say a good word for a wonderfully benevolent woman, Mr. Rowell will address those who have nothing to do with Christ ; Mr. Adams will speak his mind about self-willed disciples, while Mr. Martyn attends to the Church and Mr. Richmond digs down to the foundation rock of truth and religion. The remedy for spiritual Jeprosy will be adver- tised by Mr. Bonham; the interest which our departed friends take in us will be ex- plained by Mr. Corbit; the Christian hell will be described by Mr. Newton, and the folly of false standards of morality and re- ligion will be shown by Mr. Hull. The three heroes in the furnace of Nebuchad- nezzar will serve as examples of unswerv- ing faith and devotion to God in the handling of Mr. Jutten, and the conversa- tion between Christ and the woman of Samaria will constitute o fitting theme for Mr. Moment's consideration. the cities will be discussed by Dr. Davis; the smitten rock in the wilderness will again send forth its cooling waters at the command of Mr. Mickle; those jewels of Mr. Hepworth will prove an imteresting exbhibi- tion, but not more so than what his Sunday school will exhibit on Tuesday evening. Solomon's dream will give its lessons to Mr. Lloyd, the clouds and showers theirs to Mr: Burch, while Mr. Wilson rejoices that there is no night in heaven and Mr. Rogers presents Universalism as it prevailed inthe early Church, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Elihu B, Washburne, of Illinois, is at the Albe- marie Hotel. Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, ia at the Grand Central Hotel. ‘The nomination of Lord Lytton as Viceroy to India was that of Salisbury and not of Disraeli. In the Spanish provinces the hotel cooks use the same style of pots used by the Romans before Christ. Sainte-Beuve fought a duel one rainy morning while holding with bis left hand an umbrella over his head. ‘Lwenty-six years ago Lord Ripon was a socialist and almost acommunist; ho became s whig and is now @ devout ultramontane Catholte, ‘The symptoms of Mr. Bayard Taylor, the American ‘Minister at Berlin, about whose condition fears have j terday morning, Christ and | a many drunkards who have re- {Veen felt, are believed to have taken-a ture fér the butter, but he id very weak. London Punch:-—Mercer—Stockings, miss? Yes, miss. What number, miss, do you Mutter-of- fact youpg lady—‘Why, two, of course! Do you think I've gota wooden leg ‘The person who, at the peril of his life, rescued the two men near the brink of Passaic Falls on Thurs- day, was My. J. W. McKee, formerly a singer on the variety stage of New York. Abuse him, Mr. Talmage. London just screamed with laughter when it read this in Fua:—Lhe ‘jolly boat’ obtained its name from Deing. used for fetching men on board when, after they have been ‘rum’ customers on shore they have become ‘jolly’ tars."” ‘The boys who sell photographs during the opera are very nice little fellows, but they should not be permitted to stand in the aisle during the finest parts of the performance to discuss the comparative amounts of their sales. When ladies are entering the opera just after the performance has begun, it would be well if they did not show their nervousness and egotism by loud whispers, Sometimes an awfully ungrammatical sentence is heard above the din of whisperings, and the very nicest looking lady among the buzzing throng may, for a few ungrammatical . sentences dropped by her neighbors, be accused of not know- ing how tu speak the English language correctly. London World:—“One knows. what unhappy homes, the ever-present, scarcely stifled feuds be- tween parents, the constant nagging, the habitual scenes, do for the daughters of lower class house- holds. They send them forth waifs upon the great sea of the world, to drift where the current may lead them—to domestic service, to public house bars, to happy marriages in some cases, to the miserable an- chorage of the pavement in others, Where, on ® higher social level, there is not only the constant collision between two partners of existence, but the jar and conflict between two creeds, the peril is just as great in its way.” THE LECTURE SEASON. PROFESSOR ROBERT G, SPICE ON ‘MAGIC, AN= CIENT AND MODERN.” A lecture on ‘Magic, Ancient and Modern,” was delivered at. the Polytechnic Institute, Livingston street, Brooklyn, last evening, by Robert G. Spice, Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at the Brooklyn Central Grammar School. Professor Foster, of the institute, in introducing the lecturer, said that the lecture was one of a series to be given under the auspices of the Union for Christian Work, for instruction and entertainment, at a moderate price. Professor Spice, after announcing the title of his lecture, said that by the term “ancient’’ he did not intend taking his audience back as far as the Pyramids, but only to the time when conjurers and magicians wore high hats and long gowns, and by “modern” to the present time, when they performed in evening dress. He proposed, he said, to describe some of the methods by which the magicians of olden times deceived people. Owing to their peculiar style of dress they had better facilities for concealing things about their person. After describing to his audience the meaning of the word illusion the Professor bor- rowed a handkerchict and pretended to burn a hole through its centre, after which he presented it back to its owner as good as it was before. He then explained the simple manner in which he performed the trick, and said it was one which belonged to the old school. Another was that of changing one ma- terial into another. ‘This he illustrated by changing what appearea to be ink into water. One of the tricks of modern conjuring was that of borrowing coins and placing them in a mysterious way within balls of yarn and other articles. There were also tricks of skill, one of which was the rope trick per- formed by the late Robert Heller: This Professor Spice illustrated. There were other tricks which fe- quired an especial, apparatus. One of the lat. ter was “The Ilusion of the Indian Ball.” After rforming this trick Professor Spice entertained is audience with: several: airs on -the which musical instrument he played with o.grest deal of skill. The tricks which sraptigcd the secs ond part of the programme ‘he ‘did not a a Among these were the inexhaustible’ hat: , the making of certain playing cards arise.in.atwabler at the word of command, the making of an omelet composed of two rings and two éggs, and which turned into two beautirul bouquets with a ring fast- ened to cach, and several other tricks of @ very, inters esting character. < WILLIAM I, MARSHALL ON ‘THE AGE OF GOLD.” Mr. William I. Marshall, of Fitchburg, Mass., lece tured in the Cooper Union, his subject being “The Age of Gold; or, Gold Mines and Gold Mining in the Nineteenth Century.” Gold, he said, is one of tha most widely diffused substances contained in the earth, There are two classes of gold ‘mines—the quartz, and the placer. The opinion’ of the theoreti. cal geologist is of very little value to the gold seeker. The practical miner and the mining engineer ate the only two classes who can be felied on a4 guides—the only ones who are worth consulting. The products of the mines have been grossly exag- gerated and the people of the East misled as to their marvellous character. To the question, How do we account for the appearance of gold ? the answer seems to be that it is the result of volcanic changes, which we cannot account for, and the deposits are generally to be found in volcanic regions and mountainous coun- trics. Hence it is impossible to gauge with any de- gree of uccuracy the extent of any vein or “find,"* or how rich or how poor it may eventually prove, This explains the failure of many huge enterprises vased on sanguine and utterly fallacious predictions of the projectors and even of the savans. Bonanzas are not so frequently met with a8 many suppose. Gold is one of the substances which is al- moi always found in nature in a pure state—that is, not chemically combined with other substances. It is generally found in conjunction with quarts or when freed by the action of nature in the bed of streams or gullies at the foot of mountain ranges. All the gold in possession of mankind—some $6,000,000,000 in coin, bullion and jewelry—it freed trom alley, would not fll the hall of the Cooper Union. Water is the great agency for the production of gold. e greatest discoveries are made by “prospectors,” a class of men of no special training or education, mostly guided by chance, and worthless for any other purpose than “prospecting.” They sometimes work their ‘‘finds,” but generally sell them, One cent a pan, said the lecturer, is a large yield, though it seems small and insignificant. Gold in the pan seems vy, much ‘ger than when weighed in the scales, The implements used by the miner were ex- hibited and their use explained by the lecturer. The pan, cradle and other implements were displayed und operated in full view of the audience, They excited much curiosity, and carried the spectators in imagination to the very borders of the Pacific. The rations carried on in the larger mines were illus- vd by stereopticon views, and the colossal enters prises of the “Bonanza” kings of the Pacific slope des picted in brilliant colors, MISS HOSMER AND GARY. ‘The Boston Advertiser gives an account of Gary’s new invention for generating clectricity with little or no power—and by the use of his recently discovered automatic magnet. The report says that Gary's aud Edison's inventions will furnish light for almost nothing; also that: — Since the first publication of his discovery s few weeks ago Mr. Gury has received several offers of abundant capital to enable him to develop his inven- tion and to make it available for practical use, He had previously received offers of assistance, but, the were coupled with such condition#’as would have him but little profit for himself; but these latter of- fers have been made on such terms that he will be able to accept them with great personal advantage, so that he may now be expected to perfect his ifveution vh more rapidly than heretofore, ort F ral of ‘Mla joxmer’s friends have lately visited ry. They have recently returned from Europe ¢ familiar with Miss Hosmer’s principles and jes, but on examining Mr. Gary's invention they jim that there is not the least resemblance be- tween the two. MONEY ORDER TRANSACTIONS. Never since tho money order system was estab. lished in 1864 has there been so busy a day in the Money Order Bureau of the Post office as that of last Friday, From the opening until nearly au hour after the regular time of closing business to the public every window for the issue and payment of orders was besieged by persons anxious to obtain orders or receive payment. At the special payments window, which is for the exclusive use of publishers and large dry goods houses, no fewer then 2,279 orders were paid, representing $14,624 42, At the windows for transient customers 1,343 orders were cashed, amotat- ing to $17,400 49, so that in all there were 3,022 domestic orders paid whose total value amounted to $32,024.61. In addition international money ordets were pouring in from all parts of the United States for certifieation to Europe, There were certified to the London Exchange Office for payment in Great Britain 1,470 orders, amounting to $17,066 95, and to the Exchange Office at Cologne, for payment in Ger- many, 1,047 orders, representing $13,708 05. All the clerks in the Money Urder Bureau were kept busy until half-past nine o'clock at night, at which time the lists of orders were ready to yb win the steamer City of Brussels, which early yy Pa