The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1879, Page 6

Sv NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1879.——TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD Interviews with Democratic Congress BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, pwhlished every day én the Three conts per copy ‘Sundays excluded). Ton dollars per ‘ear, five dollars for six months, two dollars and fifty cents jor three months, or at # rate of one dollar per month for any period loas than three months, Sunday edition included, free of posta WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- mit in drafts on New where neither of these yin. a registered letter. Tn oraer to insure att money romitted at rink of sonder, tion subscribers wishing their ad@ress changed rust ¢1 their old as woll as thoir new address. ‘Al business, news letters or tolegraphie despatches must be addressed New Youk Hxnain, ‘Letters and packages should be properly sealed, communications will not be returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE. SOUTH SIXTH STRE. 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The probabilities are that the weather in York and its vicinity to-day will be cool und fair, Jollowed toward night by increasing temperature and threatening indications. To-morrow it prom- ses lo be warm and cloudy, with rain. Wat Street Yestrrpay.—The stock mar- ket was less active, but prices were all higher at the close than those of the previous day. Gov- ernment bonds were firm, States irregular and railroads strong. Money on call was easy at 3 a 4 per cent. 8, 1879. Kyxe Cetywaro has been photographed, but the autograph hunters have not caught him yet. An Inrgrestixe Letter from Alaska appears in another column, but it states nothing that is creditable to the government. War Is It that rum and jealousy generally work together? Women can probably tell, but some men seem too stupid to find out. Tue AssemBLy Sun-ComMMiTTEE on Commerce and Navigation listened yesterday to a new set of complaints against the Brooklyn Bridge. DirntHerta AND SCARLET Fever are still undesirably prevalent and likely to continue so while the air remains mild and the streets filthy. AnoTHER Casr of pocketbook snatching from a@ lady is reported. When will ladies learn to keep their money out of sight while in the street ? New Jersey is to be examined for diseased cattle, many of them reaching New York by the railways terminating on the west bank of the Hudson. A Minor Frescu Banker having defaulted and absconded, the news is cabled across the ocean to America, just as if such stories wero uncommon in our progressive country. Tue Maxuatran Savings Bank expects to Fesume payment next week. It is not stated whether or, no it will also resume the old com- bination and leave it where thieves can take possession of it. A Ricu Very of Spitz dog, rotten enough to be easily worked, is reported to lie under the win, dows of the School of Mines, but the Street Cleaning Bureau has staked no claim as yet. Tue Emancipation OF Woman does not strike all men asa settled fact. One man yesterday had to look for a thousand dollars bail for swear- ing to the ownership of thirty-two building lots which really belonged to his wife. Witt Som of the “L” road directors, partic- ularly on Third avenue, step into one of their own trains during the busy hours of the day and sample the air? They would do well to perfume @ handkerchief before trying the experiment. Tue Anxtety of the uptown wards for rapid transit facilities is shown by their protest, in mass mecting assembled, against ¢gven a reduc- tion of fares. After this the companies will be ungrateful indeed if they do not work night and day until the extreme northern limits of the city are reached. Tux Weatuer.—The barometer is highest over the lower lake regions, the South and Middle At- lantic States, the depression which was over the &t. Lawrence Valley having passed into the ocean off the Nova Scotia coast. In the West, however, a large disturbance is moving east- ward and will commence to affect the weather of our district this evening. The pressure near its centre is falling steadily, and, to judge from the present indications, a storm is likely to be devel- oped over the lake regions and the central val- leys. Tho winds inereased considerably on the New England coast after the centre of the dis- turbance passed eastward, and snow fell in nearly all the northeastern districts. In the cen- tral valleys the rainfall was slight, the precipitation being limited to the Lower Ohto Valley. The winds have been brisk in the Northwest, the Middle Atlantic and New Eng- land States. In tho other districts they have been generally light. Morning fogs prevailed on the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf coasts. The weather has been cloudy in all the sections of the country except the extreme Southwest. Tho temperature rose in the West, but fell in nearly all the other districts. Cool weather will con- tinue until this evening, when the temperature will commence rising, attended by general clonding. The weather over the British Istands is fine, but indications point to the approach of & depression which’ will diaturb the meteorological conditions very eon- siderably. A storm predicted by the Hrnanp Weather Bureau on the 5th is nearly due on the English coast. Further reports from California state that tho rain storm was very seygre, par- ticularly in Napa, Solano and Sonoma¢ounties, where a great amount of damage was done by floods, The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cool and fair, followed toward night by increasing temperature and threatening indications. To-morrow it promises to be warm and cloudy, with rains men—What They Say of Presiden- tal Candidates. That popular form of collecting opinions which has come into vogue in the American press within the last ten or twelve years, and which is designated by the word ‘‘in- terview,” is one of the most instructive, or at least one of the most readable, features of recent journalism. To be sure, tho offhand opinions thus given to reporters are some- times hasty and crude; but, as the persons interviewed are usually those who are pre- sumed to have bestowed most attention on the subjects of inquiry, the interviews represent the best extemporaneous opin- ions afloat, even when they are immature. Some of these impromptu expressions aro to be weighed, and others merely to be counted. When a Secretary of State is in- terviewed respecting facts within his official cognizance all that he consents to say is to be accepted as possessingsall the cer- tainty of an official declaration. So, like- wise, when a great lawyer or jurist consents to be interviewed on «4 legal question, or leading bankers and merchants on some new emergency in business affairs, or emi- nent physicians respecting a pestilence, or insurance officers respecting affairs with which they are conversant, their off hand views are the result of ripe ex- perience and knowledge and are of more value than the most ciaborate disquisitions on the topics which have suddenly become of interést to the community. ‘The modesty which would prevent such men from ob- trading their opinions» generally yields to the persuasive solicitations of an intelli- gent interviewer, and the public has the great advantage of prompt instruction from the highest sources. Moreover, it often happens that able men who have important views to communicate suggest and invite inquiry, to save themselves from the appear- ance of proffering their epimions unasked. The most instructive comments on fresh events frequently come from such sources, and the dialogue form in whjch they are given make them readable and attractive. There is another class of interviews which, though possessing less intellectual merit, is hardly less useful to the public, Political movements are controlled by pub- lic opinion, and the political drift at any time can be intelligently estimated.only by knowing what is moving in the general mind at that particular time. But such views must be gathered from a wide area to be of any value. - While public opinion is still in the process of formation local views are misleading, and it is only bya wide survey and comparison that any safe con- clusions can be formed as to the general tendency. . This is illustrated by the striking con- trast betweerf the interviews which we published a few weeks since with mem- bers of the New York Legislature and the extensive collection of interviews which wo print to-day with all, or nearly all, the demo- cratic members of the late Congress. The Albany interviews and the subsequent inter-’ views in Washington with the Congressmen from New York conveyed a totally different impression of the strength of Mr. Tilden as a Presidential candidate from that which is given by the broader survey which we present this morning in the declarations of the democratic Congressmen from all the other States. It is evident from these wider expressions that Mr. Tilden, instead .of being the general preference of his party, is strongly objected togs a weak and undesirable candidate by a large majority of the democrats of the United States. In the South, in the West, and on the Pacitic coast the sentiment of the party is almost unanimous against his renomination. If we made this assertion upon our own vague impressions or haphazard con- jectures Mr. Tilden’s friends might ques- tion it; butin point of fact it isa simple statement or summary of the general drift of the great mass of interviews which we publish. Is it supposable that all these democratic Congressmen can be mistaken respecting the sentiment of their own States and districts? If they are mistaken it is their mistake and not ours: we merely re- port what they say. The reasonable pre- sumption is that they understand the views of their constituents, and it is difficult to see what motive they can have to misrepre- sent them. If they reflect the sentiment of their respective localities the nomination of Mr. Tilden is impossible without a great change of public sentiment in the democratic itty. There is disclosed in these interviews a strong drift of-democratic preference for Mr. Thurman throughout the South and throughout the West. But the sentiment in favor of Thurman is by no means so decided and general as the opposition to ‘Tilden. Some of the Southern and Western democrats think almost as weil of Hen- dricks as they Go of Thurman, and o smaller number have a leaning toward Bayard; but throughout those large sections, as well as in the Pacific States, any one of the three would be decidedly preferred to Tilden. The knowledge of this fact will wenken him in his own State, where he has many enemies in the democratic party. If the Democratic National Convention were to be held to-morrow, and if the democratic members of the late Congresa were to be the deiegntes, Mr. Tilden would not only fail to get the nomination, but he would rank as low os the third on the list of de- feated candidates. Will Mr. Tilden lose or gain in the elec- tions of this year? It the democrats carry Ohio ond lose New York Mr. Tilden’s chances, and even his hopes, will be extin- guished. If, on the other hand, the domo- crats carry New York and lose Ohio, Mr. Tilden will be encourmged to’continue the fight. But even in that event New York might as easily be carried for, Bayard in 1880 as for Tilden. But if the new issue which creates the necessity tor an extra session of Congress should be the predominant, issue in the elections of this year, oven Thurman might have a better chence in New York than Tilden himself. It is 1 new issuo, with which ‘Tilden is inno way identified and of which Thurman is the foremost rep- resentative. Bayard opposed it when it wos first put forward, and Tilden and |-Hendricks being in private life had no con- nection with it. Thurman has stood forth as the leader of his party in forcing this new and exciting issue, and if it should become the overshadowing issue of this year’s clections Thurman will naturally reap the benefit of it by the right of authorship. Even if Ohio should be lost on that issue and New York carried the success in New York would inure to the advantage of Thur- man as its leading representative. But this speculation ventures upon ground not in- cluded in our interviews. Taking the in- terviews as they stand they show that Mr. Thurman has at present a much larger democratic support than Mr, Tilden in the country at large. It will not escape the notice of readers of these interviews that the democratic Con- gressmen are nearly unanimous in the opinion that General Grant is the inevitable candidate of the republican party. If the same unanimity existed among the repub- lican members General Grant's nomina- tion would be already as good as secured. But even the universal opinion of his political opponents that Grant is the strongest republican candidate is a strong point in his favor. His chances, whatever they may be, will be increased if our poli- tics in the immediate future are to turn on the revolutionary threat of the democrats to block the wheels of the government if they cannot repeal the federal election laws. The republican party will be apt to con- sider Grant as the man, above all others, to deal with such a situation. Lending to the Lord. Archbishop Purcell's many good qualities have Secured for him a lenient verdict and general sympathy in the painful troubles that have overtaken him. There has been 8 conviction that no greed of gain has brought upon the venerable prelate and his Church the terrible scandal of a misappro- priation of funds mainly held in trust for the poor of the diocese; but that the astounding bankruptcy, reaching into mill- ions, and set off by assets that will not, it is said, exceed ten cents on the dollar, is the result of utter financial incapacity, sup- plemented probably by impositions easily practised upon a simple and confiding man. It would of course be false delicacy to pre- tend that no censure attaches to the Arch- bishop, because no man has a right. to accept a sacred trust, such as the care and husbanding of the savings of the poor, unless self-confident that he possesses the pridence and financial skill necessary to its efficient discharge. Yet even this feature of the painful case has been gently dwelt upon in the desire to lighten as much as possible the heavy load of affliction that has fallen on the stricken priest. In view of these facts, the tone of an arti- cle in the Catholic organ of the diocese of Columbus, which appeared in yesterday's Henatp, must be regarded as untimely and unfortunate, The paper, which: will by many be credited with speaking for the Archbishop, however incorrect such a sup- position may be; takes the ground that “‘the money has not been misapplied, though worldlings and money changers will say that it was not managed with success,” and maintains that ‘it was never known that any bishop or his agent has ever caused misery or want by mismanagement of money affairs.” Indeed, the Catholic organ goes so far as to threaten with arraignment “in the great reckoning hereafter” all those who are ‘‘overanxious to obtain immedi- ately what has been lent to the Lord.” The misapplication of the funds intrusted tothe Archbishop is proved by the fact that they are not forthcoming when the poor people who deposited them with him for safe keep- ing and thrifty investment demand them, and the misery and want caused by their disappearance may be read in the faces of the crowds that daily throng the archiepiscopal residence. We are told in the Proverbs that “he that hath pity upon the ‘poor lendeth to the Lord;” but the new reading of the Catholic organ is that he who taketh away from. the poor lendeth tothe Lord. The poor of Ohio who intrusted their sav- ings to the Archbishop, because they be- lieved that they were safer with him than with a savings bank, probably did not know that the Lord was a borrower in the diocese. They hoarded their money out of their scant earnings to protect themselves against sickness or want of employment and to save their families from starvation. Had they been.called upon to contribute money to the cause of the Church they would, no doubt, have responded, but would have given within their narrow means, and thus have satisfied their duty in accordance with the Saviour’s teachings. It will not aid the Archbishop or the Church to adopt a tone of virtuous indig- nation against clamorous creditors or to find excuses of a Chadband quality for the grave error into which the Archbishop has fallen. Tho misfortune is one that affects the character of the whole Catholic Church, and we believe it would be well for all Catholics in the United States to do their best to pay the Archbishop's honest in- debtedness and to wipe out the scandal, No prejudices, illiberality or parsimonious- ness ought to interfero with this great work. If it is to be done at all it should be done vigorously, promptly and « ffeo- tively, without any false delicacy and with- out any attempt to conceal the fact that the money is contributed by Catholics to save tho Church from what all honest men must regard as a roproach and disgrace, Passanante Condemned. Passanante, the socialist who endeavored to assassinate the King of Italy last Novem- ber, was yesterday convicted and sentenced to death. It cannot be said that justice in Italy is over-hasty in its dealings with would-be murderers when one who at- tempts the life of the sovereign is only bronght to trial after a delay of over three months, An effort was made to show that the secused was insane and consequently not responsible, but this was set aside by a medical inquiry; and o more ridiculous effort to reduce the trial toa debate on “Passanante’s principles” was no more successful, Though this man is condemned to death it is not certain that he will be executed, for great pressure is made to in- duco the King. to commute the sentence to hard labor for life, Italy is extremely ‘‘civ- " on the point of capital nauishment. There is no country where the assassin’s knife is plied so freely, no country where the people in their rage respect life so little, ang no country where there is so much parade of respect for life in the administra- tion of justice. This sentiment may very likely save Passanante’s life. A Significant Verdict. A New York jury has given a verdict in favor of a woman who sued a saloon keeper for depriving her of the support that ought to have been given her by her husband, by supplying the latter with intoxicating liquor and keeping him in a state of ine- briety during hours when he should have been at work. The amount of damages awarded is only fifty-four dollars—just enough to carry the costs of the suit—but the principle established is a good one, and indeed it is said that a much heavier sum would have been given but for the character ofthe husband. This verdict is important as showing the readiness of a New Yok jury to enforce any proper restrictions and penalties of an excise law and to prevent the abuse of the liquor traffic ‘by those engaged in it. It is indeed » most significant result, in view of the fact that no jury bas yet been found in the city willing to convict dealers of non-conformity with the. strict letter of our present im- practicable and worthless license law. It ought to satisfy the advocates of temperance that the popular objection is not to a stringent statute to prevent the abuse of the liquor trade, but only to absurd and inoperative provisions of law which are not appropriate and cannot be enforced in a city. If we had a strong, effective excise law in operation .to-day juries would be always ready to convict when the evidence in a case proved a violation of its provisions, Respectable saloon keepers would also be found active in aiding the entorcement of such ao statute. No reputable proprietor wishes the custom of drunkards or encour- ages them in his place, and the verdict just rendered will meet with general approval among respectable liquor dealers. Such abuses of the trade as that complained of in this case would not be likely to exist under an efficient law, and if practised would be certain of punishment. The Afghan Revolt. Our despatch from Tashkend gives a glimpse of the condition into which Oriental kingdoms are apt to tumble when the King dies, Shere Ali’s agony was scarcely ended ere a triangular civil war was on toot for the possession of the vacant throne. It in- spires some respect for the orderly dis- position of the Afghans to reflect that these tierce claimants even waited for the mon- arch’s death-since, with the prince a fugitive and the enemy in the coun- try, his capacity to resist attempts against his throne was reduced to the vanishing point before his death—and his death, indeed, made the case different more in its moral than its military aspect. But the civil war blazed up and burned out rapidly, and the short work that Y&koob Khan appears to have made of it gives good augury for the vigor with which he will rule his people. It the assertion that this prince has fled to Herat is verified it will be evident that all the reports by way of England of his readiness to treat with the Indian authorities were fictions, for this \movement implies an intention to hold out— to remove himself to a point where the English cannot reach him without con- tinuing the war on a grander scale than they intend, and there to bide his time and wait an opportunicy—confident'that one of these days the Russian protectorate will be- come the inevitable, Swill Fed Cattle from the West. Another contribution to the history of the progress of Western cattle from the Plains to the seacoast is given in tho letter from Chicago which we print to-day. It will be noted that it repeats with some am- pler details the story given in the letter on the same subject from St. Louis which we printed on ‘Lhursday. In the account given of some particular features of the cattle trade in these two great cities the public interested in knowing the truth on this subject—and an exact knowledge of the truth ‘is the first step toward the discovery of » remedy—will see clearly established that connection between swill stables where pleuro-pneumonia certainly exists and the great cattle-breeding Plains where the ani- mals are certainly healthy. Our veterinary surgeons and onr cattle breeders and sellers have denied the existence of this malady in marketable cattle as strenuously as the English officers have declared its existence, and these denials were made precisely be- cause our surgeons and dealers were unable to comprehend that there could be any pos- sible connection between the healthy cattle from the Plains and the cattlé stewed for months on a fattening process in the foul hot sir of aswill feeding pen. How puny specimens of the healthy cattle ure sold cheaply on the way, fattened in these pens and sold again as healthy cattle irom the Plains we have now shown, and we leave it to those most interested to find a remedy, tes PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Susan B.*Anthony i the now maple sugar of the West. A grandson of Curran will be Chief Justice of Ja- maica, Mr. Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, is at the Now York Hotel. General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, 1s at the Windsor Hotel. Tho Philadelphia Chronicle says that Kearney’s mouth is at half mast. i ‘The Whitchall 7imes demands that you due as you ‘wish to be dunned by. Captain H. Hamilton Perry, of the steamer Britan- nic, sails for Europe to-day, Chief Justice Sanford E. Church, of thé Court of Appeals, arrived from Albany lest evening at the Grand Central Hotel, Henry Clay once said he would “rather be right than bo President.” That is the reason why #o fow people are willing to run for the office, The popularity of Lady Dufferin was so great among Canadiens that her stocess in St. Petersburg, whither she will go with her husband, is said to be already assured. Beaconsficld’s health is better than it has been for years. Recently, when asked how long the tories would remain in power, he replied, ‘As long as Mr. Gladstone lives.” Senator Randoiph, of New Jersey, has been con- fined to his bed in Washington for nearly two weeks with @ overo attack of pneumonis, He is slowly re- covering, and was out of doors yesterday for a short time. Senators Blaine, of Maine, and Jones, of Nevada, and Representative G. B. Loring, of Massachusetts, are in Richmond, Va., to look after the proposed Richmond and Alleghany Railroad, in which they are intorested. _ Professor Rudolph Virchow has delivered a lecture before the Medical Society of Berlin on the Astra- khan epidemic, which he declares to be the genuine Eastern plague, and that it is contagious, but not amore dangerous than cholera, John Bright refuses to support a law for the re- pression of juvenile smoking. He thinks England has “rather too many laws already,” and prefers to leave the matter to parental supervision, to public opinion aud the effects of a better education among the working classes, Dr. John Hutton Balfour, F. R. 8., professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh since 1845, has resigned that post for reasons of {Il heal being above seventy years of age. Among the ci didates for'the succession are a son of Dr. Balfour, Professor W. R. McNab and Professor Alexander Dickson, of Glasgow. Evening Telegram:—“ “Hit him twice, Freddie! I told you to hit him twice.’ This is telegraphed as tho remark of Clara Morris to Mr. Harriot, her husband, who immediately proceeded to pound’ the gentle- man on the railroad train who, according to the qc- tress, had insulted her. But why twice? Why not five or six times? Ah, we have it—she wanted her husband to givo him the ‘deuce.’”’ THE LECTURE SEASON. DR. HENRY G. SPAULDING ON THE BAY OF NAPLES AND ITS CLASSIC SURROUNDINGS, At Chickering Hall yesterday morning Dr. Henry G. Spaulding delivered the second of his course of iectures on “Life and Art in Anctent Pompoii.”” The branch of the subject treated in this lecture was the ever renowned and attractive Bay of Naples. Pom- peii, he said, was the Newport of ancient Rome, and the shores of the beautiful Bay of Naples were dotted with the villas and watering places of the denizens of the world’s capital, Dr. Spaulding in- vited his audience to embark with him upon s tour of the Bay of Naples. The stereopticon was brought into use and threw upon the screen a succession of beautiful pictures illustrative of scenes of historic and classic interest.- As view succeeded view the lecturer recifed the lines of Buchanan Read be- ginning :— My love to-day ts far awny. Sailing the bine Vesuvian bay, and concluding, Where summer sings and nover dics. The lecturer then passed into the details of his subject. Leading his sudience up a cliff he brought them to the land of Virgil. Whether Virgil was really buried there or not, he said, was a question, but thereabouts was his favorite home, and Petrarch paid a visit to thisspotin the firm belief that it was Virgil’s tomb. . The next point touched was the Serapeum at Poz- zuoli, and a number of views were given of the cele- brated Temple of Jupiter Serapis. Then was shown Lake Avernus, which lies in the hollow of an extinct crater, It is circular in torm, and by the anciente was sup] to be the way of’ descent to the under world. Returning to the shares of the bay the lec- turer gave a view of the ancient city of Bair, one of the most noted of the Roman watering places. was noted as being the city where all the vice licentiousnoss of the opulent and corrupt Romé flourished openly and unchecked. ‘The slides next threw upon the screen a picture of the ruins of Paestum, with its three temples of massive Doric architecture, A Roman amphitheatre shows that these monarchs of the world held sway here, but Paestum, which lies not far from the Bay of Naples, was founded long before the Romans pos- rc Southern Italy. It was a Greek colony, and under them was called ‘‘Paseidonia,”” and this was afterward turned to Paestum. The ruins lie upon a dreary plain between the mountains and the sea, and the in tions are that it was once a place of con- siderable im, The next theme was the Roman villas that dotted the shores of the bay. Eighteen ‘centuries ago, the lecturer said, the view must have been beautiful, when the sl of land around this superb bay were crowned by the magnificent villas and country residences of the Roman emperors and _patricians. aad judged from the writings of the Romans wo shoul meppore, that they were jonately fond of country fo. Bat we must minate between what they said and what they did, Although the; wed these retreats by the sea, posses: ry still the town was their proper habitation and the spot where they were most at home. They had none. of that m for nature and natural scenery which is characteristic of the people of the present day. Juvenal extolled the country, but abided jn Rome. Cicero had his villa at Tus- culum and wrote one of his orations there, but although he was always talking about the delights of the country we found him writing to ‘his triend Celius, adjuring him never to lesve Rome, but to dwell always in ita brightness. The lecturer then passed to the Island of Capri, in the ~ ot Naples, where Tiberius built twelve villas. It was his favorite retreat, and he did all he could to beautity and adorn the island. But in 5; ‘ing of Tiberius the lecturer combated vigorously the idea that he was such @ monster of cruelty and lust as he has been accused of being. His portrait statue in the Vatican shows no traces of these passions, but is rather a tace of noble intelligence and intellectual greatness. He must have been a man of taste and cultivation, because of the ruins and monuments that have been found in his villas, and, after all, the evidence against him reste upon the record of his bitterest enemy, Tacitus, who was, as it were, the paid attorney of the Roman Senate. Tiberius was the first absolute master of the Roman world, and the proud and haughty Roman Senate were atenmity with him because opposed their power. A view of the Island of Capri was given, and the lecturer led his audience upon a journey to its various points of interest. It is an island of cliffs, and it was on one of the loftiest summits that Tiberius had the largest of his twelve villas. A view of the village of Capri was then given and also of Ana Capri, which is perched upon the upper clitfs. The road between the two villages is by a path cut in the cliffs winding upward, and if you go that way upon a market day you will meet the Greck- faced natives poising some bundle or basket u their heads on their way to the week's bazaar. looking as they are they are inveterate beggars and scream out ‘‘Hajocchi!”’ (a small coin) af soon as the visitor comes in sight. The lecturer spoke of the beautiful blue grotto, as it is called, in the cliffs, which you enter by » boat under a low arch. Another is the green grotto, where everything in the interior 18 # bright emerald green. bear co the cliff ecen- ery of the island the lecturer said there was nothing at Mount Desert that could equai it; but the chief charm about it is the marvellous play of color over these rough, calcarcous cliffs. . This lecture will be repeated by Dr. Spaulding on next Monday morning. “ROAST RAT AND NANKEEN BREECHES.” Avery amusing and instructive lecture was do- livered last night before the Manhattan Liberal Club in Science Hall by Mr. W. A. Croffut. The speaker began by saying that in California tho people who actually earn the bread they eat do not persecute the Chinese. He did not intend to make any appeal except an appeal for justice. The Chinaman must make his own way with the qualities that are in him the same as in any- body else. The Chinese who came to this country wore made up of the best class of peasantry around Hong Kong and Canton. It was said that they worked for half of what others could, So it was with labor- saving machinery; all improvements in that line worked for less than men could. Every labor-saving machine was & blessing, and it bleavned especially the of. It did the drudgery and crowded the workers to the higher departments, where brains were neodod. It made luxury possible even for the poor. ‘The cry against the Chinese was the same as the cry of the Know Nothing party twenty-five years ago, only substituting the word “Chinese” for “foreign,” It was urged against the Chinese that they sent their bones back to China to be buried. In view of all tho different kinds of fortilizers that were so abundantin this country the lecturer thought the people might well spare the poor China- man his nos. But, worse than going back themeclves or sending their bones back, they actually sent money beck to China. But, the lecturer urget, they could not take aw: with them the wealth they had built up, the rail- they had constructed, the canals they had dug, or the other great works they had accomplished The lecturer said he bene an other curiosities in tho way of objections agatnst tho Chinese, which he ‘would reserve for some other occasion, MAN'S PHYSICAL SYSTEM. Dr. Willard Parker, Jr., spoke last night at Asao- ciation Hall on the pepper method of living, from @ careful analysis of the physical sys- tem of man, The human skeleton consists of 200 distinct bones, joined by ligaments. When motion is needed the ligaments cannot elongate orcontract. Dr. Dalton’s daily diet for a man of average weight was referred to. It con pounds, of the following materials :—M« ounces; bread, nineteon ounces; butter, three and one-half ounces, and water, fifty-two oances. The lecturer recommended to eat slowly, to eat at regular intervals, not to drink much while esting, and not to engage in mental or physical work immediately after cating. FOOD AND DIGESTION. Dr. Ranney will deliver his second lecture to ‘ath. letes, on “Food and Digestion,” st Chickering Hall See grein, ‘Saeee, tie enya oe FEO aman FINE ARTS. SECOND EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERI+ CAN ARTISTS—“‘VARNISHING DAY”—NOTABLE PICTURES—FIRST NOTICE. It will hardly be said that the second exhibition of the Society of American Artists, which will open to the public at the Kurtz Gallery on Monday morning, is in any great degroe a better display than the first one. This at least is the impression made upon us by # first view of the collection on yesterday, “Var- nishing Day.” The display has, however, somewhat higher average merit, aud must unbesitatingly be Pronounced an exceedingly interesting one, contain- ing many excellent works. It may seem captious to expect more when we are given an exhibition in which there are so few really bad paintings, and where even those, in the majority of instances, are the works of men of high artistic aims and undoubted promise. A radical fault lies in the acceptance of so many mere studies, of 80 much crude, well intentioned, but unfinished work. This sort of thing is often very interesting to artiste aud amateurs, but is not suited for public exhibi- tion, Having thus prefaced we will treat the sep- arate examples which come under thig head for what they are worth as studies, without attempting in each case to show how far short they fall of the com- pletion requirell before public exhibition. Other points which may be noted are the large number of heads, finished and studies; the general impression of hotness in color which is made by the majority of the figure pieces, und the fact that several prominent members of tho socicty are very poorly ropresented. In the position of honor on the east wall bangs “Jollity”—» young German girl driving geese down a hillside—by Walter Shirlaw, president of the so ciety, an admirable, solidly painted work, which will be noted again. Opposite this, in the centre of the west wall, on the line, is “The Mirror”’—a nude woman lying on some drapery, which is a distinct failure—by Wyatt Eaton. The flesh tints of the figure, which is treated with little skill, are untrue and un- pleasantly hot and dirty, while the white drapery, with its greenish shadows, is painted with little knowledge. In the centre ot the south wall, with a line of smail pictures under it, hangs J. Alden Weir's ambitious production, ‘In the Park,” which, while it contains good work in parts, notably in the por- trait of Wyatt Eaton, the artist, is extremely ‘ped asawhole. The composition is poor, the five or six life size figures being crowded together in a most an- natural manner, Cian | any wor which the painter may have had to tell. The southwest corner is filled by one of the best and most important works inthe display—William M. Chase's lifelike, o1 and masterly full length life size “Portrait of Duve- neck,” seated in a chair, smoking. ‘Thomas Eakins’ immense canvas, with life size figures, ‘The Clinic,"’ 6 on the east half of the north wall. It is decidedly unpleasant and sicken- ingly real in all its gory details, though a start. lingly lifelike and strong work. Near this, in the rer cag Oe the second line, is a an inty but im many ways admira- Bie “Pangecapa near Polling, Bavaria,” by Will iam M. Chase, Passing around the llery to the right from the door of entry we uotice first, bh upon the fourth line, a striking and characterfal head of an old man leaning on a crutch, “Winter,” and painted by BR. Gross. Below, further aleng and on the line, is the best of George Inness’ two contributions—a landscapoin New Jersey, which is a good work, lacking, however, in those positive “darks which the artist often uses well. Near it isa ood example of Charles H. Miller—a well composed adecape with a decorative sky. F. Duveneck comes next with a heat, Shed of a Munich ap; ° tice, with bead-like black eyes. A clevor, dect iy effective life size portrait of the late Frank Dengler, the talented young sculptor, is by J. M. Stone, A very yellowish green impresstonish landscape, No, 24, is by George Fuller. Near it is an ex- cellent little nude of a youth by T. W. Dewing, called “The Sorcerer's Slave.” “A Hillside’ is @ well studied and good example of Robert ©. Minor. We next, on this east wall, come to a sterling landscape by R. Swain Gifford, » scene near New Bedford, It rae yet strong in effect, and’ has noticeably g sky. A lat figure of a woman by Duveneck is not up to his mark. 8. F. Darrah’s sunset on a lake has lent points. Under it is Louis C. Tiffany's “Market Day at Quimper,” which, though not up to the artist’s reputation, is still a pleasing work. The picture, “A Capriote,” which represents John 8. Sargent, is an exquisite work, and one of the gems of the collection. Superb in color atmosphere, and with a deli- cious figure finely ond very unconventionally posed, it is sure to attract as much attention as any painting in the gallery. A study head of F. E. Church, the artist, by William M. Chase, is a strong end very effective he noticeable for its fine management of light and shade. Homer Martin's lake scene, No. 44, though delicate in sentiment, is extremely unpleasant from its too prevailing greens and lack of drawing. Decidedly Mr. Martin is pecu- liar in his ideas of color. Bolton Jones sends @ realistic, clever and very well drawn landscape, “Une Lande en Fieur en Bretagne.” In the southeast cor- ner on the line is a view of Niagara, by William M, Hunt, which does him no credit and is mad in color. On the south wall we note first W. 8. Macy’s well drawn, strong, yet somewhat photographic “Bava- rian Wood scene.” A life size figure of & seated woman in a ruff, by George Hoesselin, towers near’ this. The head is lifelixe, though slightly hard, and the ruff is extremely well painted—in tact, is the best part of the work. J. KlNott Gregory's bold, Ploasing and well modelled head of “Ganymede” is An effective, clever and very incomplete stuay of a wild looking and evidently somewhat inebriated girl is by J. Alden Weir. Near this is an insignificant picture of some girls in a bowling alley, by Herber§ 8. Gilchrist, which should never have been hung, On the line, on either side of a Homer Martin, are @ pair of little temale figures by Francis Lathrop. The one in & Japanese robo is charming. J. F. Car rier’s head of a pontine boy is a strong work, full of character, it is with much pleasure that we note a second little nude study by of a seated, which is finely drawn and remarkable for ite light and shade treatment. William, M. Chase's solidly painted and sterling work, “Interigr of the Baptistry at Saint Mark’ ngs “bn the line near his “‘Duveneck.” ‘Turning to the west wall we come to a head, by William Sartain, above which is one by Walter Shirlaw which is very striking, being finely mod- elled and rich, deop and pure in tone. uel Colman’s “Antwerp Boats at Low Tide,” while not as strong a work as his picture of last year, is ploasifg and good in color. J. C. Beckwith’s nude study of a little girl, ‘Jeanne,” does him infinite credit. A pair of Venetian marines, ‘Evening’ and Morning,” by W. Gedney Bunce, hung as pendants, are fine in color and effect ot light, but wretchedly drawn. K. 8. Giffurd’s ‘Little River, Mass.,” is one of his best pictures and an admirable landscape. Mise Cassatt’s large study of a middle aged lady in a white dress, seated reading a newspaper, near gn al- most white wall, is a daring problem, well solved and exceedingly clever in general treatment. A. H. Wyant is seen at his best in his landscape, “Evening.” It is a fine work, in which a tender opalescent sky is given in @ masterly manner. Not far off are a pair of little cxamples of John, "4 ng! and a flower on a shell. ‘The first is a delicate con- ception, mystical in feeling and fine in color. A smaller interior with figures. is au interesting ex- ample of Whistler. In the northwest corner we come to a very striking work by H. poms Moore—an old man, nude from the waist up, pull- ing on his shoe. It is effective, the action being strong, the lines of the body incisively drawn and the contrasts of light and shade finely A. H, Wyant’s “A Day in October” is a aparkling, Gashingly painted canvas, with a luminous sky. the weat half of the north wall, on which this ly we note in addition Wordsworth Tho! of o halt lady, by Cassatt, which is very fine in color, and a strong head ofa boy, by George Fuller. The only work in marble is 6 small statue, which does credit to Olin L, Warner, and which will be cri at length later. Of the reliefs we note six excellent examples of St. Gaudens, O'Donovan's strong head of Bayard Taylor, several fine small heads by War. ner, and his bustof s lady, which is delicately treated and graceful in outling, The anes been well done, and though natufally there will be a good many complatnts the gallery presents a fine appearance” artistically, ‘The collection containg some one hun- dred and fifty canvases. To-day and — pri- vate view for invited guests takes place, the ex- hibitien opens to the public on Monday. A RESIGNATION FROM THE SOCIETY AND ITS CAUBE, ‘ The action of the jury and hanging committes ia rejecting several important canvases, which the authors naturally thought should have been hung, has raised quite a disturbanco in artistic circles. In fact, in one case it led to the resignation on the spot of one of the prominent mombers of the society, Thomas Moran, the well known painter. This artist on arriving at the gallery yesterday found that his large picturo, “Bringing Home the Cattle, Coast of * had not peon hung, though hie smaller Jandacape had beet. Ho immediately withdrew tho Jatter and sent in hin resignation as a member. says that the whole affair is run by a cliquo; that he has seen for some time that the members of it have beon working agains® him, and that this is the oul- mination. He considers the work ono of hts best. A member of the Hanging Committee stated that as the picture was # large one, and as from its merits they did not think it worthy of a place on the lino, it wea concluded to reject it rathor than hang it higher. SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY. The following additional subscriptions to the Seventh Regiment New Armory Fund are reported:— F. Aug. Schermerborn (seoond subscription), $600, William H. Osborn, $100;* Bates, Real & Uooley, $100; John Slade & $100; Whittemore, Poot, Post & Co., $100; Jacob Wendell, $10U; K. T. Anche muty fey subscription), $100; John KR, bol . G. Gunthor’s sons, $100; W. H. Webb, $100; ohm W, Hamoruley, $100,