The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1879, Page 5

? + sometimes appeared in the papers. There was one “BISHOPS AND PRIESTS Tow the New Instructions from Rome Are Re- SATISFACTION. +. GENERAL Preparing for a Fuller Intro- duction of Canon Law. PEE A SE Ana In the Hxratp of Monday was published thé full text of an “Instruction” addressed by the College of the Propaganda to the Catholic bishops in the United Btates, regulating the method of dealing in future with charges preterred against members of the Catho- Ue clergy for breaches of evclesiustical discipline, Calling yesterday on one of the learned fraternity of the Society of Jesuits, in Sixteenth street, for an ex- Pianation of the document, the HERALD reporter as- certained that it was something that had been long anticipated, and the textof it was now in the hands of the bishops and clergy throughout the country. “In what way do the priests receive it?” asked the reporter. “Priests and bishops are alike pleased with it,” ‘Was the answer; ‘‘the priests because it gives them the assurance of just and equitable treatment in m- stances where charges are preferred against them, and the bishops because it relieves them from the suspicion of using their authority in an arbitrary and autocratic manner.”” “Then, of course, there have been instances in which bishops have used their power over priests somewhat arbitrarily?’ “Undoubtedly. In fact, cases of the kind have that may be recalled of some priests in Louisiana, who were removed for some reason by their bishop, and on appealing to Rome were reinstated.” “It is to be presumed, then, that representations must have been made to Rome to amend the state of affairs here existing?” “That would appear so, It was s hardship to the priest, who believed himself wronged by the action ot his bishop, and who was too poor to undertake a journey to Rome, to be compelled to wait until he heard from there that his case had been considered and decided. Rome moyes slowly in everything, that everything may be rightly decided, and in its wisdom it has declared this set of instructions, which proves as satisfactory to the bishops as to the priests.” ‘THE NEW SIYLE OF PROCEEDINGS, “Heretofore the bishop was prosecutor, judge and executioner ?” “Something like that, but now the bishop selects a Judicial council of three or five priests, according to | | ceived by the Catholie Clergy. | Po NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 priest. Where his consent could not be obtained, | aud a division was desired and needed, his doath be awaited before the thing could be | muntry like this, where churches the population fast 's would not bo again, in new country, a be left to the judgment of the bishop. yhere there is canon law the parish priest absolute control of the revenues. In country it ia left to the judgment of the bishop what the riest shall receive. In this city the pastors are paid @ year and the tants for the first three years $500, and $600 after thi “Could the full canon law be carried out here?” “Oh! dear, uo. - According to strict canon law a ! riest accuxed of theft should be brought for trial Botore the bishop, and in regular Catholic countries the Church has # right to Coilect (axes tor its own perl seca In England the Protestant Chureh collects tithes under canon law that go to sustain it, and tho Ireland before the disestablishment ‘hen, great deal must same was done in of the Irish Church,” Father O'Farrell, of St. Peter's, suid:—These rules formulate practices that have been a tradition in the Church and are not to say new. There has always beon the right of appeal on the part of a priest from the decision of his bishop. ‘These new provisions will mak: appeals less frequent, or do away with them entirely,” MONEY CHANGING IN THE TEMPLE KEEPING THE MAIN POINT IN ‘to THx Eprrog oF THE HERALD:— + Iam surprised at all the excitement created by the simple complaint of a lady of ill-usage in one of the Catholic churches, 1 am surprised at the amount of heated discussion it has provoked, and I am more than surprised at the reported sermon on the subject “of a Catholic priest in Har- lem, who, among other things, is reported to have said that the writer of the communi- cation signed “Truth” had committed such an enor- mous crime that she would be refused absolution by any priest. Surely Father Flattery could not have given utterance to such opinions. Father Flat- tery states that he spent twelve years in Italy, and that had he not the frm faith peculiar to an Irishman he would have lett Italy an infidel, Hard words make a poor argument, but Iam tempted to say that if Father Flattery honestly believes what he is reported to have said—namely, that to complain in the newspapers of belug dragged out of church for not paying tor a seut is to deserve excommunication aud to merit a refusal of absolution by the priest— 1 repeat, I am tempted to say that the amount of religion he carried. away with him from Italy is searcely worth considering. But [ don’t wish to use hard words, like Father Flattery, for hard words prove nothing. Now, what 18 allthis discussion about? It is not about Saxon or Celt, or about Catholic doctrine, or who is a good or who is & bad Catholic, It is simply about the propriety of exacting money for admission to the mass, and, above all, about the manner of enforcing that exaction. ‘fhe lady (“Truth”) charged that she was rudely cd out of church, Neither Father Burtsell nor the offending usher has denied that charge. If it has not beeu denied surely no oue can be blamed for accepting it as truth. Are VIEW. we to be told that we must submit to such rudeness under pain of excommunication? [ hope not. Neither Father Burtsell nor Father Flattery himselt dure make such an assertion. Lam one of those who don’t indorse -all that has been said about the impropriety of exacting puy for seats. Some of the churches ure very poor and need money, and it is difficult to Maise it sometimes in any circumstances, and it is their duty to obtain a correct knowledge of the evidence against such as ure charged with breaches of discipline. They are‘snp- posed to make an accurate investigation, to seek out all things from the presumed yuilty party that will set the case in its truest light, and to supply sufi- ciently strong reasons for safely and prudently pass- ing a just sentence.” - * Is there # place and form of trial?” “Yos, the bishop determines the place and calls the Council together. They are warned that it is not a judicial process, but held to the end and in such manuer that the testimony may be arrived at as dili- gently a8 possible, so that they may be able to form an opinion as to the truth of the facts on which the case rests. He also warns them that in the investi- gation nothing be done which may expose them- selves or others to danger of loss or of grievance; es- pecially that room be not given to action for libel or any other p ings before a civil tribunal. A report of the case must be read before the Council by the bishop’s official, who must answer such ques- tions as are put to him by the president or members of the Council, for the purpose of obtaining # fuller knowledge of the matter. An oath will not be neces- sury, but if the witnesses are not unwilling, and de- clare that they are prepared to contirm by oath, note will be taken in the acts of this declaration. After- ward the accused party receives full liberty of pre- senting everything that can help in his deteace. ROMK ALWAYS OPEN TO APPEAL. “Has there not always becn some form of trial b: the bishop when charges are made against u priest 7” “The subject came before the Council at Baitimore, gud certum forms of trial were enucted; but they were uot entirely sutistactory, aud instances still happen where Rome has finally 'to be ap; to.” jut cannot Rome be still appealed to ?"” “Yes, always, but with far less likelihood than herotoiore, ag the fullest possible investigation and oe Play are guaranteed by the rules now in opera- jon.”* WHAT A MIASIONARY RECTOR MEANS. “in the instruction the expression ‘missionary rector’ is used to designate wisat ?”” “The Church in this country is a missionary Church. The decrees of the Council of Trent are not published in the United States, except in Louisians and St. Louis, which formerly be- longed to France, and California and florida, which belonged to Spuin. In consequence of. thin we have uo parishes here, as they have in those countries where the decrees of the Council of ‘irent are published, and, of course, no parish priests, A parish priest is jndependent of the bishop in the fact that he cannot Le remoyed by him, but the so-called pastor, which in this country is analogous to parish priest, stands on a different footing. Louisiana, when it was under the dominion of France, was divided into parishes, tor civil as well 98 ecclesiastical administration. We have so-called arishes in this city, but they sre simply dis- ‘icts, the same as claewhere throughout the country, and administered by & missionary priesthood, There are no pastors in the sense of Parocks or parish priests, as in the Old Worid coun- tries. Practically the difference is very litle, tor a priest in charge’ of a district hore is never romoyed Without cause. Under canon law a pastor might have some pecuniary rights in his parish even utter re- moval, but under the pallens arrangement that prevails in the United States he has no claim on the Parisy after he is compelied to leave it.”” ABOUT THE BEMOVAL OF A PLIEWE. A prominent pastor on the east side of town aid :—“Phere is a difference of opinion on the ques- tion of the removal of a priest, as affected by this ‘instruction’ from Rome. ‘There are priests aud bishops who maintain that the reetor mizsionis cannot be removed witiont a trial, while others hoid that he can be removed from one parish to another without his consent and in the discretion of the bishop. Of course it is plain from the ‘instruction’ that the power of suspension is vested in this new council, apd that ® priest cannot be sus- pended without being deprived of the faculty ot — celebrating use and = heuriag confession. At his ordination priest swears that he will devote ail his life to the , and that implies au obli- sation on the part of the diocese to sustain him, wn- uss he has violated such a serious law of the Church a« would call for his suspension.” ‘Are fed penenotienn trom Rome satisfactory to ri ‘Thuy are, and I should say to the bishops, plso. Causes have occurred where a bishop devided & vaso against a priest, and thinking it tinally settled tore up or threw away the documents. Subseqnently ‘an appeal Was taken to Rowe and an ex te atate- ment offered on the part of the pricat. When the bishop was called on fur his proofs he had tone to offer, as they were all destroyed and the pricst ‘was restored to the position from’ which he bad been yeoved, Under the néw order of things all acts | and docunients brought out on the occasion of the Judgment shall be carefully kept in the archives of the episcopal court, so that in case of appeal they may be easily available. There is lao a provision thet compells the archbishop to hear au appeal. Forinerly the archbishop was saved this touble wnd the appeal went t@ Home, so the ameudmunt in the method of procedure may have the effect of having many cases definitely settied hero that have hereto- fore boen carried to Rome.” NOME WEALY OF APYRALS, 4 “Then Rome, you think, was growing weary of the many appeals dyad to hear ?" “$o aho vircually says. At first cases affootin, priests wore more or lexs decided in the discretion o1 the bishop. Then the Plenary Council of Baltimore recommended that # council be called by tho bishop to shure in the hearing and disposal of any charges inade against w priest. Even then there was a source Of @insatisiaetion, aud ome, complaining that the ote iorm of judgment was found LA og . incapable of preven compi on part of those who semen to moet with any Punishment, . resolved to issito a sot of dustructions that should be obligatory upon thos to whom it was addressed, The Janguaye of Kore was that it had uently happened of late that priests condemned in consequence of judgments carried on and sentences pronounced in that matter, especially those removed from the office of mussion- sry rector, cosmplained here aud therBeul their proiates, sud frequently had recourse to the Apostolic See. . It oiten huppened that many and necessary things were wanting in the statements sont, and when all things were lored grave doubts mm BrOwKe As to the trust to be in or refused to the documents — bro forward iu these caves. Under these circumstances the College of the Propaganda coneluded on the remedy that has been applied, v0 that inavcent clerics should not wuftor unjustly, nor those guilty of any crime eacape deserved pin! i$ ON account of a defective form of judgment.” ths ous manu oe CANON LAW, 16 pastor of an uptowg church, on being asked if ho thought these provisions ter the Catholic clergy of the United States were intended to bring the canou law into force in this country, said:—"As tar as tho clergy are concerned 1 think bic Hod 4 ny sag “ Are the differences between a missionary country and one under canon law?” parish pariah “in & country where canon law prevails a Cauuvt be divided without the consaut of the other way. Besides, there are some, who are well able to pay, Who are too mean to give a peuny for the support of the priests or for the beautifying of the churehes. But all Catholics il agree with me in saying that whether ‘‘truth” was one of these mvan persons or not, whether she was impu- dent in her answers to the “gentlemaniy” usher or not, it would be far better to have allowed her to remain in her seat unmolested than to desecrate the house of God by an unscem!y struggle with a woman about ten or fifteen cents. ‘Phe church is no place for ushers who are ready to clusp women around the waist on such slight provo- cation and to drag them into the strect like dis- orderly characters. I would like to see the Cardinal abolish the custom of fees for admission to the mass. It looks bad and no doubt sometimes promotes indifference, but I am. not ready to join in the outcry against the Church if in his wisdom this should not be done. TRUTHFUL, THE EXPERIENCE OF A RICHMOND LADY. RicHMonp, Va., Jan. 20, 1879, To tax Epiron or Tax HeRALD:-- My attention has been attracted by some recent letters in your columns in reference to the sale of seats in Catholic churches in your city. I wish to make a statement of my experience, and I foel sutis- fled that every person of any judgment will agree with me that the money changers should be driven out of the temples, if not by our Lord Himself, at Jeust by those in high places who have been chosen to represent Him. I am a resident of the South, but have been in the habit of spending some months of the year in New York. Ten years ago this winter I was spending some time in Harlem, and attended mass in a church at that time under one Father Eugene Maguire. It was, I think, in 117th street, but I havo to trust my mem- wry and do not fect certain of the exact strect. As Iwas about to enter this church a middle aged man touched me on the shoulder and demanded a fee of ten cents, in a tone which I had never had used to me before, However, I paid it and passedin, This Father Maguire, before the sermon, read » letter fromethe Archbishop forbidding any Catholic priest “to allow persons entei tae church to be usked tor money. ‘The following ay, confident of the new rule g observed, I presented myself without enough money to pay the admission tee, The door- keeper refused to allow me to enter; and, on my threatening to report him to the Archbishop, in- duiged in the must abusive Janguage, in a loud tone, in the church, to me, alady. My astonishment at bejug asked for money at the church doors knew no bounds at first, and, feeling suro that there must be some exceptions to this rule, I made it a point to at- tend a diflereut church every Sunday, so us to give the matter a thorough investigation. I visited the poorest parishes and the richest, and found, among about thirty churches, only three iu which money was not demanded at the entrance by men whose faces, manners and tones to the poor Were simply brutal, and to the rich cringing and ob- sequious. Attired simply and veiled, I have stood a silent spectator at the door ot many #charch and watched the congregation pass in. Poor, pale people trom crowded tenement houses dropped their bard earned money on the plate of the watcatul Cerberus, Lhave son « young, delicate girl insulted because her money was one cent short. I followed her in and tears coursed down her thiu cheeks during the holy sacrifice. I telt sure that they called to Heaven for vengeance upon the money changers. On one occasion, at w church ou or nesr Ninth avenue aud Thirty-second street, I heard « poor old Irish woman plead piteously for Tiuission to hear mass at eight o'clock. ‘Che door- eeper answered in the harshest manner that she could oniy enter by paying thy accustomed fee, Alas! she had it not, and sho turned sadly away, I next presented myself, and though weil able to pay, resolved to test how fur the custom would be carrici, I demanded an entrance in ayentle but firm tone, aud ‘Was told that I could enter provided I (4 lady) were stronger than the speaker, who thereupon barred the entrance with his burly . Jett and went to the French church ‘Twenty-third street, where [ was mimitted without a word. ‘Chis occurred in July, 1876, About the same time I knew @ family who, in my native country, had been good Catholics and never missed ‘Ynaxs. The loss of the father had reduced them to the di it poverty, and taey tokl me, among their other aillictions, that they had never attended mass in New York, having been unable to find a church where they would ve admitted at any mass without money. 1 told them of the three L had discovered, vis, :;—The French church, Twenty-third stroet; the ‘Lhirty-second street, and a church treet, which, I believe, belongs to the ‘There are, I have heard, a few others, but I had not time to visit the entire city. But I tried overy mass, and { found tho ‘cnse the same. In the majority of the churches thore is positively no admission without money, and it is not the asbers aud doorkoopars who ate to blame alone, for I have heard the priests from the pulpit that the people must pay for t weatsa. They say that it is necessary to have money to defray the expenses of the Chnreh; but the Catholic Charch flourished ine the catacombs of Mowe, and priests said mass under the trees in Lre- land when # price was upon their heads, and still the Church flourished. And now in the nineteenth con- tury the poor of New York are sometimes not al- lowed staid: room even in their fine churches. Asa Catholic IT foul that 1 have veen silent too long Upon tis subject. 1 appeal to those who will one day have to render an account of their steward- ships as bishops and archbishops to take this matter in band and to apply and enforce the neces- wary remedies, Christ ald thet Mis Church should be recognized by eortain works, and one of these was that the poor should have the Gospel preached to them, But the poor of New York are not alluwed to enter His house without paying for it, and then they hour not the Gospel so much as an endless demand for money. All the denials w can be written in rospouse to this will not alter the facts which 1 havo related. Lkuow whereot I and have no motive but the good of our — ‘Church and fon and: the benctit of the poor, to it, yo Whom our Lord bas commanded to feed His ks and Hiw sheep, and who, instead, are allowing the wolves to plunder them. SIBYL. DKADHEADING EVEN TO HEAVEN, To rae Evrron o tHe Henao: — Asa constant reader of your great journal I can- not help exprossing my regret that #0 much valuable space should be devoted to such contemptible grum- bling as has emanated from “Truth,” “Catholic,” &e., whom Ihave no doubt belong to the race of doadheads that infest overy community, You find them on aluust every railroad cur, nearest to the , 1879.--TRIPLE SHEET, heater in winter aud the coolest place in summer, ‘Theatrical managers are plagued by them, when they often obstruct the view of the honest paying public. Ie it to be wondered at, then, that this class of indi- viduals are dingusted if they are prevented trom dead- beading their way even to heaven itself, and rush into print because they have to pay the smal! sum of ten or titwen cents for a yood seat in w comfortable church? Those grumblers should bear in mind that clergy: clothing, and that landlords, yas companies and tradesmen who supply our churches with all the requisites for their maintenance have to be paid. Now, itis a positive fuct that the majority of the Catholic population in this city are among the work- iny and poor class of people, who cannot afford at all times to “pay for hearing mass,” and the fact that the Catholic churches are crowded ke pga ing from the dawn of isy till noon on Subday with these same pe »rple gives the lie direct to “Truth” and his followers, who must know very little and care less about the Catholic religion when they state that they have ‘to be hear mass.” ILLIAM AHERN, 42 Pike street. THE POOR INDIAN. INTERESTING ADDRESS BY GENERAL ARMS’ ING ON THE BEST WAY TO CIVILIZE THE RED MAN. A number of the leading merchants and capitalists of this‘city, including Marshall O. Roberts, William E, Dodge, Smith Ely, Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan, Cyrus W. Field, Peter Cooper, A. A. Low, Morris K, Jesup, Z, 8, Ely, Samuel D, Babcock, William Libby, Edward Cooper, Samucl J, Tilden, J.D. Vermilyea and others extended au invitation to General 8. C. Armstrong, principal of the Hampton Normal and Agriculvural | College, to address them in regard to his experience in Indian education. General Armstrong accepted the invitation, and designated the 22d inst, as the time and the Chamber of Commerce as the place to comply with their request. + At one o'clock a respectable audience gathered in the Chamber, among those present being Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock, Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bollows, Stewart Brown, William L. Dodge, George W. Lane, Robert L. Stuart aud others. Mr. Jauies M. Brown called the meeting to order and nominated Mr. William E. Dodge as chairman, which was duly rati- fied. Mr. Dodge expressed his regrot that this very important meeting did not take place after three o'clock, when the business men, who are. much in- terested in the Iniian question, could be pres- ent. Ho said:—“In placing a number of young Indians at Hampton College for ed- ucation by the government all persons inter- ested in the welfare of the Indians must feel highly gratified. About twenty-five years ago a few Indians from a Georgia tribe were placed at school at Cornwall, Coun. ‘fhe results of the education these people received were very plainly visible among their people. The tribes removed from the Southera States to reservations were indysirious and pvos- erous, and their agricultural products were now ve times greater than they were ten yeurs ago.” Mr, Dodge then presented Geneval S. C. Arm- strong, who is a tall, soldieriy looking gentleman, whose mien expressed great firmness. EFFORTS 0 CIVILIZE THE RED MAN. ‘The General entered into his subject with a mili- tary dash, usfng but littic circumlocution in coming 0 the point. ¢ stated that the interest in the sub- ject of Indian education began in Coionial times, when special. rovision was made at loanoke, Dartmouth, . Harvard College and other edu- cational institutions of learning for this ob- ject. Then the Indians would not accept the advantages. thus afforded them. This, however, is changed now. Many of the Indians are beginning tv see the uselessness of contending against the white people, sud seem more auxious than cvor to learn the arts of the whites. Some of tae Indians who were sent to St. Augustine, Fla., after their cap- ture by General Sheridan, were received at Hampton, and this led to the reception of forty-nine more Indiaus, forty boys and nine girls, sent trom Dakota ‘Yerritory under charge of Captain Pratt. There they are required to labor, and by this means help to support themselves. The first thing done to them was to cut their hair short, cleanse them and stop their tobacco, While it proved a hurd task to wean them from filth and tobacco and induce them to shear their locks, which to them are an emblem of mai itrength, the thing was, nevertheless, ac- complisi They very soon learned the ways of the white people, mingling freely with the negro students, and the only conflicts: that have occurred between them was a good natured snow-balling match, General Armstrong here gave a statistical account of the financial system in voguo for the support of this enterprise, and impressed upon his hearers the fact that philanthropy could not be better served than by generously supporting this institation. Eightwen Florida Indians sre maintained by private contributions, while the yovernment = $167 apiece tor the torty-niue Dakota Indians, ‘The princi- pal work in which the students were traincd wus agriculture, and atter leaving the institution they were ditted to take care of themselves, THE INDIAN HOLDS HIS OWN. Rev. Dr. Bellows foliowed Goneral Armstrong in an eloquent address, in which he stated that there was nothing to show in American history that there ever existed more than 400,000 Indians on this continent, including those of Aluska, It ts a fallacy to suppose that the Indians can be exterminate: They noid ther own pretty well, At the tarthest only about seven y-five thousand of the cutire race may be called savage. Ho would ratuer undertake the education of the indians. than the nogroes, They hive: many claims to our vespect and kindness and should be treated as men, Whenever we found God's isnage, whetber cut in ivory, in ebony or in coral, we should esteem it. Proressor Hitehcock closed the meeting by a perora- tion, ia which he remarked (hat where Ly civilized men can stay and till the soil one savage bunts and fisies, We have. been on this coutinent 250 years face to face with u race which we cannot deny ave men and has a mission to fulfil, Mr. Gallatin, in his paper published in 1836, eould only wccount for 320,000 Indians, and if we count them now we find over 350,000. ‘This is * gain, and the red men have held their own better than the Jows, who only numbered 7,000,000 centuries ago and now, and who have only kept their status through their toughness and perseverance. The savage taj first the vices of civilization, and this the hardest tusk to take out of hin before he can be made a decent man. Congress should place the Indian on the same footing as the Swede or other foreigner wio predinpta his 120 acres of ground, and lot him know that tuis possession, properly worked, not only gives him bis existence but an heirloom to his fuuily. ‘Chen churches, homesteads and educa- tional institutions will spring up among them und the problem of Indian civilization will be promptly solved. Goueral Armstrong lectures to-morrow morning, at eleven o'clock, im» tueeparlors of the Young Men's Christian Association ou thy same subject, at which he will exhibit magic lanterus, showing pictures of his Indian protéges. é HARVARD, UNIVERSITY. THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1878—tTH¥ WoRK or THE YEAR, ‘The Harvard annual report shows that; in numbers, Harvard, like Yale and Ann Arbor, is fast comlug up with the great Knglish universities, there being 1,344 students of all classes in attendwuce at Harvard during 1878. heavy classes and great activity. The decision of the Conrt of Appeals last March aliowing those holding degrees trom law schools outside of New York to disponse with two out of the thrive years of clorkship which they would otherwise have to spend here befu aduission to the Bar, pats ‘he Harvard law stade: now ov a footing with the graduates of the Colus dia jaw school in this respect, and so works a decided benefit. Of the Sis undergraduates 550 have bourded at the handsome A'umni Hall at a cost of only $408 & week, while President Eliot, in noting the tact that the other two-fifths pay $s a week at private houses, shows by caretully prepared tables that nearly every kind of Lood was as cheap at Cambridge iu 1878 as iu 1858, yet at the latter date students tor table board but $44 week. He well explains tuo difference by saying that ‘scudents, like their parents and the comniunity at large, have got into the habis of living less p than they used to,” and he urges on parcuts the w im of training their sons to plain living. ‘The adinission of Women to the university course sis proving & Wise step, Where very few applied at tirst there were actually seventy-nine candidates at tho preliminary examination of 1815, while the wide and deep interest in te plan is attested by the fact that inquiries about it have steadily poured in from every Stace in the Union. From & mostinteresting batch of letters from meu who in formér years had won scholarships at the University Presideut Kiiot concludes that in aiding parents in taking deserving students through, free trom the pinchings of want, and so sustaining the health of not a Lew who, in various fields in after lite, prove most usecul to their fellow mon, in diminishing debts tor education, and in Lr ls respects, they are & most valuable boon, While but tour stadents died in Cambridge in 1878, and great aicention is paidto the sanitary condition of the buildings and grounds, the Presi- dent well criticises the habit, so common in the country, of sending only the feeble and sickly to col- lege. trom the Zoological Museum Professor Agassiz has steadily sent collections to schools and colleges all over the country. The Arboretum, in facing the question how to tree the Worn-out and exposed lands of the Atlantic howe eno and the treeless Western States, urges the ratlro Sommpanies, aa the parties most heavily interested, to look to the latter work, while individual effort urust take care of the former. Ly the direct inspiration of the Arboretum nearly four hundred thousand trees were planted in our land during 1878, surely most valuable service, Alto- gether the busy Workers at the university have had « good year, and tf the public could onty ar oftener from the debating societion and gain an carnest of the kind of men we are to have irom these in the future it would prove & benefit to the contestants, vl be sure vo bh thom not only wow but in their fate and wore public live, ‘men canuot live without food and | | While divinity has not prospered there | of late years the law and medical schools’ show | PROGRESS MADE IN ASTRONOMICAL AND PHYST. } _ (From the London Times.) Simply to register the scientifie work the many scientific socicties all over the world would | pretty well occupy an issue ofthis paper. But this multitude of organizations by no means absorbs al the scieutittc work of the world, though probably most of it gravilates toward them, ‘There is 4 host oO independent of the societies, which are often the | T of the first importance, In this intensely scien- tific age even the daily press is sometimes the first to announce scieutifie discoveries of the first importance; as witness the announcements of Edi- son's inventions, We ourselves, we believe, were the | first, in this country at least, to publish, about a your ago, the news of the liquetaction of the “permanent” gases, Our readers must sce that it is a hopeless task to give acomplete account of the scientific work of the yeur in the space at our disposal, We can only allude to a few points of the greatest importance, and that inainly in respect of the work done iu our own country, The principal scientific “event” of the year was, however, without nationality, notwith- standing the rumor that the American astronomers “got up" the eclipse of July 29 to give themsclves and their English comfrires wn excuse for 4 holiday. ‘The results of this eclipse have been pretty thoroughly discussed in our columns; it has enabled us to obtain a more definite knowledge of the character of the sun’s activity, true nature of his wonderful appendage, the corona, and possibly, also, of the origin of the zodiwal light. But, iu the eyes of some astronomers and of the’ “general public,” probably a more inter- opting result was the discovery of one, if uot two, intra-mercurial planets, can bé little doubt, it is iw ‘The we think, as to the accuracy of the observations on this point, wud it is just announced that an Aincrican scientivt (we wish we knew of amore palatable term), Professor Davison, bas invented a wcthod of obser ing the region near the sun without an cclipse, which, if ef ut, wilf probably place Watson's and. Swift's observations beyond cavil. Independently of the eclipse, the spectroscopic and photographic ob- servation of the sun has been actively carried on dur- ing the past year, especially by Janssen, of Paris, and Tacchini and others in Italy, the iormer having invented most ingenious aparatus, the photo-hclio- graph, by means of which he is able to obtain larger and much better defined photographs of the sun’s disk than ever were obtained before. SOLAR OXYGEN, : By this means some very remarkable results have been obtained. Huggins, we may say here, has been coutinuing his solid spectroscopic work, photograpb- ing the spectra of the fixed stars. An important con- tribution to this departinent of solar observation is the just published first part of the “Publications of the Asstrophysical (a new and significant term) Observatory of Potsdam,” containing observations of sun spots trom Oct: Is71, to December, 1873, by Dr. Spier, Draper’saunounccment of the discovery of oxygen in the sun is one of great moment, but we believe some competent solar observers consider the proot ineufficient. A vast deal has been written dur- ing the past year by Broun, Balfour Stewart, Mel- drum, Blantord, Buchan, Faye and others on the sunspot period ‘and its supposed connection with certain terrestrial phonomena. Jevons has made outa woudertully plausible case for their connection with commercial crises, Walford with famines and Mr. E. D. Archibald with locust plagues. Although the transit of Mercury has not the importunt Dbéarings attaching to a like event in the case of his sister planet Venus, still it is of great astronomical value, and that of May 6 was as carefully observed by French and Amcricay astronomers us weather and other conditions would admit. Eleven new minor planets have been added to the already long list dur- ing the year, These now number, we believe, Ll. Of other planetary observations those of Asaph Hall on the satellites of Mars shouid be mentione The announcement that a new crater had been discovered in the moon astounded astronomers at the tine, though cool reflection showed that volcanic action ueed not necessarily be supposed to be at the bottom of it. The publication ot Newcomb’s “Lunar Re- searches” is an addition of great value to mathemati- eal astronomy, and the charts of Lohrminn and Schmidt of the moon are each the result of nearly half a ceutury’s work. In connection with astronomy at ti we should note the reorganization of the Paris Ob- | Vice Congress reduced his title to that of servatory und the Astronomer Royal's annual report, | Chargé daitaives, and his salary from | $7,500 with its summary of the transit of Venus observa | t© 35,000, although the Euxst was evidently on the brink of war and serious agitations. tions as far us they bear.on the sun’s distance. MI. LOCKTER'S THEORIES. From the bewilderingly wide ana varied fleld of phyuics we cannot hope to pluck anvthing like a representative bouquet, but only one or two of the t prominent flowers of research that have blos- somed during the past year. Mr, Lockyer’s implicit sunouncement of the abolition of the elemenis is universal in its bearings, but belongs specially (o plysies by the method of research rollowed. © Mr. Lockyer does not pretend to have completed his brief; and at this, the preliminary stage of his an- nouncement, it is to be expected that he would meet with adverse and eveu depreciatory criticism. ‘Thore is otten too much human nature ‘among men of science, and the older chemists must be uatursily piqued thit so great a triumph should be gained in thus irregular fashion ou their own ground. Should Mr. Lockyer be abie to complete his proof, then 1878 will be a red letter yeur in the history of scien- tulle discovery. There can be no doubt about te certainty wud Value of the strange resulis achieved by Mr. Crookes in his recently deacrived experiments wth rarefied yases by means ot his Tadio: er, The most noteworthy point in Mr. Crookes’ experiments is the revelat.ou of a kind of Ultra-gaseous staic of qatter which comes into play when the number of molecules im a given space is enormously reduced, Hers molecular tion occurs, obeying the laws of light, and wolecular foci are formed which can raise’ to incandescence platinum foil, Moreover, in this staie the molecular stream readily obess the influence of a magnet. Ali Mr. joukes’ recent as well a4 his previous viments have given a remarkable contirmation of Mv, Johnstone Stoney’s theoretical views concerning the action of the ridiometer, The last named physi- cist hay lately placed his theory upon a firm mathe- matical basis in a series of valuable papers con- tributed to the ‘Transactions of the Royal Dublin Soviety”"—a society which during the past year bas ealibited & remarkable scientific activity, A great deal of important work has been registered in con- ne-tion with spectroscopic research. W iweution Abney's uew method of pli least refrangible or red end of the spectrum as one of tue great achievements of the year in this depart- ment. ty w ar to . THE GREAT AMERICAN PHENOMENON. Edison's phonograph belongs to the past year, 80 far at least as its announcement is concerned. It Las not yet reali: expectations formed ws to it practical value, thouga ac basdven of y tu connection with researches on 80 pecially on tue human voice, In this » pertments of Fleming Jenkiu and Barrett on the wave-iorms of ar noteworthy, The telephone its | Various improvements during the year, adding much | to its practical utility; the most marked advance | | bem the’ introduction im Anerica of Edison's in, & fares produced on thiu flues by varying sounds; Gore's researches on the thermo-clectric properties ot liquids; Captain B important con‘rioution to a kuowledge of the earth's magnetism and its re- markabie changes, in his Geographical Society lec- ture; G. H. Darwin's various papers on the viscosity of the earth, which have both # physical and yoolog:cal bearing; the invaluable paper of Thomso: at tho Cnited Service Institution, on compass adjus ont in tron slips; the duplexing of long submarine cables. Among Works of importance published during the year we can only mention Draper’ “Scientific Papers,” Rayleigh’s “Theory of Souad, aud the first part of a valuable “History of Physics, by the late Proiessor Poggendord, just issued, LIQUEFACTION OF THE GASES. Of course, the mathematicians have been busy, but 'k as little interost tor the public generally; lst mention Professor Sylvester's Ingenious discovery of the wonderful analogies that exist be- tween she atorus as combined in modern chemistry and cartain oxpressions in the most modern geometry. ln the borderiand between physics aud cuemistry, the work of Cailictet and Pictet in the liquefaction oc the “permanent though much has been done during the past year in continuing the experiments, in the department of mineral chenustry we find that during the two | a in a! rs } ti of that body frum other substances. M. Boisbaudran has now determined the specific gravity of gallium as nearly six times that of water. a equivalent of qallium has aiso been determined by its discoverer, who assigns to it the number 69,805, During the past year also Sergius Kern has continued his inves- tigations on the metal davyum. The determination ot the equivalent of davyum is now being acourately riormed, but preliminary experiments have shown hat it is ‘moat probably 14, Intelligence has also u ch been given during the year of the isolation of certain | charweteristic propertios separating i ' bodies. i fl mE RR? : | Peports that he has extractod an earth which at first CAL RESEARCH—WONDERS OF THE SUN AND | he cousidered as erbia, but which in reality is a mix- OF THE worxsHor. ture of two oxides. the name of Ytterbia, not only on aecount of its re- semblance to yttria b; of the past | crbia by its high equivuient, as well as its resem year which has found its way to the light through | blance to those earths in iost of its properties, ‘Lhe latest addition tothe metals helonging to this group ready mentioned, M. Delafontaine, to which he assigns the name Decipium. 1678 will ever be reams Professor Bayer, of Munich, of selentilic periodicals, home and foreign, quite | chemists the syntheticul preparation of oF blue coloring niatter contained In the plant Isatis first to give to the world the results of research | transforniatious by which this most iateresting syn- thetieal iormation is brought about are at present {90 costly to permit of their mercantile spplicution, nes Lit placed in the hands ox the orgsnic chemist by uiodern | syutheticul research, | REDUCING CUR FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC. SERVICE. To rng Eprror or aa Henaup:— of expenses in the forcign diplomatic service and beg to call your attention to an instance in which I think proposition, Read, our Minister to Groece. voted the best years of his life to diplomacy, and he ter in that international profession. acter, abilitics and attainments, his sound judgment, of the | large experionce, keen yet kindly wit and unaffected eration in foreign countries which have become sources of pride to his fellow countrymen, and of our yovernment, and solid services it is difficult to account for the in- justice to which he has been subjected, A brief glance cureor as Consul General at Paris during five eventful yeary clearly manifested his rare fitness for the highest class of international duties. likewise acted as Consul General of Germany for France end Algeria during the Franco-German war, aud afterwards for nearly two years. Both the Ger- muns und the Frouch acknowledged that his consent- ing to continue to act as Consul General with the thirty-five’ consuls and consular agents under him prevented the possibility of a renewal of the war by rendering unnevessary the presence in France of German Consular officials at a time when the French mind was highly excited against all Germans. At that. peziod the German Ambussador wrote to Gen- eral Road more the sentiments of gratitude with which I am inspired by the persevering solicitude which you huve never ceaved to manifest in procur- ing for my laws.” ion of the President in his aunual Message to Con- State and of the German governmeut. marck also testified ou various oecesions his per- soual and official esteom 0 | agterward invited him to form and preside over & commission to examine into the tendi French in recognition of his vari he was promoted on the 7th of November, 1873, to be Minister to Greece. There he soon again earned the thanks of our government for his ability and energy in securing the release of the American ship Armenia, and ‘or his successful ctforts in obtaining from the Greek government a revocation of the or- der prohibiting in Greece. of Foreign Missions of Church and of the American and British Foreign Bible socities. Immediately atter the latter important ser- General Read desired to resign, but the Department of State wished him to remain, and the Greek gov- ernment and the King nuned that he should retsin his old rank in the corps, and the German representative was instructed by: of his services to Germany. crisix in Greece, during which General Bead acted with his usual vigor und gained the thanks ot our government for his pronupt and efiicient protection of American persons und interests. months, however, Congress cut off eutirely the appropriatioa have tection amd besides it would have seemed to Kurope that we had sbundoued Greece at the very time when she was pleading her cause before the Lerlin Congress. At the wise suggestion of Mr, Evaris, who saw tl gency of the case, General Rend ‘at once siznitied his pense until such a time remedy the error. out pay, aud although Mr. Evarts has addres: cont tat justice will be done. tiiuk Cougress should make the appropriation, and General Read should be named to a post in Europe, whose greater importance would aiford larger scope for his energies and abilities. X. between two and three o'clock yesterday afternoon, Biair Sevibuer, late head of the firm of Charles Serib- ner’s Sons. Smith, of Scribner & Co., publishers of Scribner's Monthiy and St. Nickolas; J. Wonry Harper, of Harper Appleton & Co.; uain's Sons; James R. Osgood, of Houghton, Osgvod & Co.; EL PB. Dutton and C. A. Clapp, of EB, P. D | Dodd, of Dodd & Moad; sbon telephone, But perhaps. of most popular interent tar this aitectan S ughes’ slave: Houry Holt, Robert and Poter Carter, William Pott, puoue, As sensitive to hext as the mie D. Van Nostrand, J. 8, Bakor, C. T. Dillinguam, Rk. 1: phoae is to sound is Mlison’s microtasimeter, | Bowser und Wiliam R. Leavitt. Wiich was brought into play al the eclipse Mr. Willian Appleton was called to the chair and July. We need do uo more than refer to the subject | Mr. J. Heury Harper acted as secretary. In assum- of electric lighting, the yreat popular seieatific se ing the duties of chairman Mr. Appleton said that sation @ the year—or move practical than purely | tae present was one of the saddest oecasions upon seieutific interest. In this connection we should | Wuich the publishers of this city had been called to- mentou Tyndall's experments on tog signals, which, | gether. He then appoluted Messrs, Kandolph, Put- v s their great practical importanes, have a dis: | Lam, Dodd and Bowser a committee to drew up a tinct scientific value. Lariy in the year Joule an- | series of resolutions, ‘Che gentlemen vawed retired nounced the resuity of a now determination of the | tor & moment aut reappested with — the | mechanical equivalent of heat, the value now given | resolutions given below, Mr. Randolph then being 6 toot pounds. Out of much other valua- | rose And addressed the mecting on the | bie work during the year in various departments of | loss which tho book trade has — wudlored | yxics We can Only mention De La lue and Muller's | by the death of Mr. Scribner. “ive times in the te Tescurches on the phenomena accolpany- | Space of four years,” said the speaker, © we mvt tius—twiee to speak of those who lad reached and | ing electric discharge in gases, Which have their com- | piomont in the researches ou similar phenomena by | enjoyed the tull truitage of manhood, und twice to Dr. Maciariaue, deseribed in the ‘Transactious | Temember those cut of in the very flower of theiz of the Koyal Society of Edinburgh; Sod- | Years. Pour times out of the five we have been sum- ley ‘Taylor's curious experiments on the color | woned by f OUF historic names—Harpr, Scrib- | nex, Appicton—uames faniliar not to us only, but torever kentified with our literature—two, fathers und founders; two, sons and successors, besides Sey- mour, Who came among Us bat for a little while, but stayed quite long enough to win our hearts. our de conclusion of Mr. Randolph's remarks Mr. Carter sugyeste t the on ae ‘oft @ Standing Committee pointe and to tender their e lon | in i of gases belongs strictly to 18i7, veloped « wide & pacity for business rongiy his which he had tuhorit ss > taine, he has given the name Philippi! and has SCIENCE IN 1878, shown that, wighough closely allied to the already seek | known metuls yttrium aud terbium, ft still possesses from these two M. Murignac Prom the mineral yadoli For this new carth he proposes being colorless, but also to f earths is the extraction of one vy the cheinist al- Ia the dopa: zuent of o1 lea! auio chemistry the year ¢ for the discovery f what ix termed among the iuetorja, found in india, Although the chemical still present, like the reactions of Graebe and rman, one of the best examples of the powers T have read your editorials suggesting a reduction would be doing an injustice to carry out your I refer to the case of General Meredith General Read has de- justly regarded in Europe as an accomplished mas- His high char- incerity have won for him a reputation and consid- hich heve made him a most useful representative In view of his high standing a tew facts will explainour meaning, His brilliant General Read “I cannot omit to express to you once compatriots the protection of the Generat Read also received the commenda ss anil the vepeatod thanks of the Department of Prince Bis- General Read, and he has tly seat him his likeness, with an appropriate iption in his own handwriting. ‘the French Anent was not less complimentury, and shortly ediency of ox- tho study of the English language in the y. For his successful labors in this direc- » received the thanks of that government. us distinguished services on he e sale und circulation of the Bible He also recoived the thanks of the Board Southern Presbyterian urged him not to leave. ne diplomatic ‘corps hela @ mecting and duter- is Government to give him the pas in memory In Februury, 1878, there occurred a most dangerous Within three This would dipiomatie pro- most critical moment, tor the Legation. tert Americans’ without in Greece at # ur- jon at his own ex- Congress might be able to ikoad ts still Serving with- 1 to the ittees of the Senate and the House of Represen- isa most convincing memorandwa, urging an »propriation, there seems to be some doubt whether iilngness to carry on the Goueral | Beach October 20, In the name of fair dealing, I uigher diplomatic MR. SCRIBNER. HETING OF PUBLISHERS AND ADOPTION oY APPROPRIATE RESOLUTIONS—HE FUNERAL TAKES PLACE TO-DAY, A meeting of publishers was held at Clinton Hall, THE LATE take action appropriate to the death of Mr. Joby Among others present were the follow- § Tepresentatives of leading firmis:—Mr. Roswell- Brothers; William H, and 8. D. Appleton, of D. G. H, Putnam, of George P. Put- isaac Li, Sheldon, ot Sheldon & G na & Co.; LT. H. | Anson D. F. Randolph, To-day brother is the youngest of us all.” At the call the publishers of this city together on simi- ious iu the future, :—Messrs. Randolp THE REVOLUTIONS. The following are the resolutions presented to the woting and Unanimously adopted :— clity God to remove from his ssoviate wud friend, 4 £08 he foliowing were ap- . Carter and Harper. Seribaer, bors of the bo Now York, January reant a do: adininistration that ducame the head of the house, to sustain, snccoss, the eminence in trade with His mame, Though orutsod, as bi 8 efrele de did not rapidly widen those lust your M, Lecocg de Boisbaudran has con- | of seuuaintance in the 4 tuned | his Tenenaeaee om ths ew | metallia Tarpon, ot homgeah a ion tee cniling gr eourveny jemreut in, scoVere wo ears ny ti h leonir to extend to all, of busine jatgment ana qhioh bas only How been thotoughily investigated; | cca hee taste, whieh tre took paths to cultivate steeatectinn he bas aiso pertected his mothods for the separation | His sudden death euts short, too soon, a life bright wi ise solved, TI respect tthe members of the bs trade express th mory of Mr. Scribner by attendance his funeral, 11, That copios of this memorial be transmitted b; seeretary to Mr. Seribners family and to house of narles Seribaer's Sous. Tho funeral will take place at half-past two P. M. to-day from Dr. Vincent's Church, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fitth street, The remains will be interred in Woodlawn Cemetery. ‘To-morrow morn- ing the store and publishing house, which have been. new metals and metallic oxides from the minerals | closed since Tuesday morning, will be reopened, It gadolinite and samarsRite, found in America. has not yet been decided wi any further changes DISCOVREY A NEW ELEMENT. will be made in the composition of the firm or To one of these. discovered by M. Mare Delafon- | w ether tue name will be changed, BERLIN GOSSIP. NORDENSKJOLD'S EXPEDITION—ROYAL AUTHORS—- BAYARD TAYLOR'S GOETHE LIBRABY—-ADE- LINA PATTI'S INDISPOSITION. e Benury, Jan. 6, 1879, Nordenskjéld’s friends are no little concerned at the news, first published by the Heratp, of reportseurrent among the whalers returning from the Arctic Ocean that the eminent explorer and his party on board the Vega were frozen in near the East Cape of Asia, King by | Oscar of Sweden and his Cabinet, greatly interested in the wonderful exploits of their distinguished countryman, telegraphically inquired of Mr. Bors, their Consul at New York, if any confirmation of the sad tidings had reached him. He received on the 30th of December the following reply:—‘Campbell, master American whaler Norman, left Saint Lawrence Natives of Bast Cape told having seen man-of-war forty miles north on north side Eust Cape; natives reported reliable; many whalers have wintered with thei, : EXPECTATION OF DIRECT NEWS FROM NORDENSKJOLS. Hopes are entertained that Nordenskjild will pe able to send direct news in the course of the wine ‘The extromest Russian military post is about twe hundred or two hundred and fitty iniles distant from the Kast Cape. If Nordenskjild succeeds in organiz- ing a sledge party and sending it to this post, named Anadyrsk, his messages could be forwarded by the native Tchonktchonks to Albazine, the nearest tele- graph station, in about forty or fifty days. As the Vega is condemned {o involuntary captivity at a place not lying so very far north, it may be supposed that the ice masses now blocking her in on all sidea will be dispersed in the first half of the month of July. No slight danger, then, exists of the Vega being, by adverse winds, driven toward the coast or destroyed by the ice, as so frequently happens to whalers in the Arctic regions, Fervent wishes are everywhere expressed that such a cruel fate may be spared to Nordenskjdid, who was so near attainment of the much coveted goal of discovery of # northern passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. LIEUTENANT WEYPRECHT AND Coun? WILCZEK. Nordenskjold'’s wonderful achievements seem to have given a new impctus to Arctic explorations. Much interest is manizested in Europe with re- gard to the American arctic Expedition, It is not improbable that the Jeinnette, the safe arrival of which at San Francisco was lately announced, may meet with Professor Nordenskjéld in Bebring Strait next summer. In 1880 Lieutenant Weyprecht and Count Wilezek, members of the last Austro-Hun- garian Polar expedition to the North Pole, intend starting for Nova Zembla, where they contemplate staying at least one year, in order to devote them- selves to thorough meteorological, hydrographical and other scientifle observations, Count Wilczek, a° rich Austrian magnate, will himself defray all the expenscs of the journey, Reports are in circulation that the Archduke Rudolf, the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince, an ardent ornithologist, will accom- pany them some distance on their route. AN IMPERIAL AUTHOR, His Imperial Highness, who received an excellent education, has, notwitustanding his youth—he is only twenty years of uge—just entered the ranks of tho literary world by a remurkable book, dedicated to Prince Leopold of Bavaria, his brother-in-law, which gives a vivid description of a hunting tour he made last spring in the company of the Prassian Major from Homeyer, president of the Berlin Ornith- ological Socicty, and Professors Brehm and Hodeck. The beginning of the work savors a little of the school bench in its rather superficial remarks and observations. But this display of boyish peculiari- ties soon gives way to an eloquently expressed, deep- felt admiration of nature and stirring accounts of often dangerous hunting incidents. The same per- severance, courage and intrepidity shown by the Prince when hunfing the chamois in the Tyrolese and Swiss mountains was manifested by him in his chase of the eagte in the wild and desert plains of Hungary bordering on the Danube. Only # few copies were published and distributed by the Arch- duke among his relatives and friends, A Vienna paper obtained extracts of the book, which, when in- serted, produced quite a sensation. : THE GERMAN EMPZROR. .Ifcredence is to be attached to statements in the German press,.the example of the Archduke Rudolf will soon be followed by his friend Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, the youthful heir to the imperial throne of Germany, who is also much addicted to literary occupations. His Highness, now studying at Bonn, stayed with his parents during the Christ- mas holidays, He was nearly always to be seen in the society of his father. He sometimes also accom- panied the Emperor on his drives. Nobiling’s and Hidel's attempt on the life of His Majesty have not made the least change in his habits. Fully trusting in God, he disdains to adopt the least outward pre- cautions against a repetition of the murderous attacks. Punctually at two, if the weather permits, the Emperor may be seen leaving his palace and procecding in-an open carriage for a drive to the Thiergarten. Despite tue sad affliction to which he was exposed last year, and the wounds inflicied on him by the assassin, the aged Kaiser, who has passed fourscore years, is but little altered in appearance. He devotes himself with all the ardor and untiring energy of his character to performance of the oner- ous duties of government, reassumed by him to their fullest extent. THE BERLIN SEASON. . By his especial command the festivities at Court will take their usual course this winter. There was even a talk of celebrating in Berlin the marriage of the Duke of Connaught with the Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, originally fixed to take place at Windsor, in the beginning of February, and which had to be deferred until March, owing to the demise of the Grand Duchess of Hesse. Queen Victoria, anxious to be present af the nuptials of her favorite son, insisted on a solemnization of the wedding in England. The Crown Princess and the parents of the bride will escort the young lady to the land of her adoption. His Imperial Highness, the Crown Prince, is also desirous of participating in the marriage, but the Emperor still objects to his leaving Germany, even for a short time, Since the second attempt on his life the Emperor is nervous at the idea of separa- tion from his son, whose absence he deeply deplored when strickon down. TAYLOR'S COLLECTION OF GOETHE’S WORKS. Shortly after the death of Mr. Bayard Taylor the Empress requested, through Lady Ada Russell, an interview with the widow, who had not been pre- viously presented to her. The audience took place last weck. Her Majesty was most gracious and ex- pressed the deepest sympathy with Mrs, Taylor's loss. Nothing is yet settled as to the timo of her re+ turn to America, She is said to have some trouble about the lease with the landiord, who insists oa quite an exorbitant indemnification. Apprehensions lost Mr. ‘Taylor by his generosity may have left his family in rather straitencd circumstances seem to be Dut too correct, as may bo also inforred from the an- nouncement that the widow intends to dispose of all the books collected by her husband for his contem- Plated publication of a life of Gocthe, Some of these volumes, numbering altogether about one hundred and twenty, are of great value, as they are the earlicst prints with marginal notes by the author. American scholars or public libraries in the United States ought not to let this aplondid opportunity slip by to acquire one of the finest collections of Goethe's works in existence. BRET MARTE AND TUR GERMAN COPYRIGHT LAW. Mr. Bret Harie, who published @ touehing tribute to the memory of his friend, brother poet and chief, has entered into contract with some German pub- lisher for the exclusive edition of his works on the Continent. As Mr, Bret Hurte is now a resident of Germany he may claim protection from the German copyright law and stop the illicit republication of his books. rite prva, Adelina Patti, who created quite a furore in Bertin on her recent reappearance, after an absence of nearly sixteen years, has beon singing at Hamburg, where she likewise quite enraptured the public. Tho Parisian papers lately invented some alarming state- ments of Patti's serious indisposition from an in- flammation of the knoe, said to be of such a danger ous nature that amputation of the limb would be iuevitable, These stories fortunately turn out to be unfounded, They may perhaps have arisen from the fact that Mime. Patti is afirmed to be enceinte and expecting her confinement ina month or two. It is Always difficult to correct euch errors,