The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1879, Page 10

‘NEW YORK HERALD ‘, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PEOPRIETOR, JAMES PSN Pe WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. York or Post Office money order: ean be procured send the mi oney remitted at risk of sender. Fion subscribers wishing thelr nad their old ns well ax their new addres ‘All businoss, news letters or tele; be addressed New Yorw Henatp. ‘Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejecied communications will not be returned, to insure atten- 8 changed must give hic despatches must SPUILADELPUIA OFFICE 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, \LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLEET NP. PARIS OFFICE—40 AVENUE DE L'OPERA. ‘NAPLES 0! NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertisements will forwarded ou the saine terms as in New ¥ »s eda LYCEUM THEATRE—Lx: Peter Dee. EW YORK AQUARIUM—Rxv Rivixe Hoop, _SPIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Wiuxs. WALLACK'S—A Seu. ACADEMY OF MUSK JGRAND OPERa TO) STANDARD THEATRE “UNION SQUARE THEAT ie Baxken's Davcnter. Boorn’s THEATRE-) x* Duke, (NIBLO'S THEATRE-Bt ack Cxoox. ‘BOWERY THEATRE—Oux Soi MPARK THEATRE—Excacxn. BROADWAY THEATER: AMERICAN MUSEU M—Comiosinus. TONY PASTOR'S—Pr: o -MASONIC HALL—Tu MBAN FRANCISCO MY KURTZ GALLERY—Amxu Anmsts’ Exuipitiox, GILMORE’S GARDEN—Perpesraianisa. ST. JAMES OPERA HOUSE. AnD TIT. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE—Rir Vax Winks. QUINTUPLE SHEET. “NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1879. ‘The probabilities are that the weather in Ne Fork and its vieinity to-day will be cooler and ‘cloudy in the morning, followed by cleaving. ‘To- morrow it promises to be cool and fair, The winds will increase during to-day. Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock market was active and strong. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railrouds strong. Money on call lent at 6 a 7 per cent, with exceptions as low as 5 per cent. Wuar Do Gambiers Cuptain Petty dare not + Tammany will probably have a large line of braves from whom to select her new sachems. Fup is increasing, near so rapidly as the necessities of tie sufferers demand, Tur Peacn Crop has begun to promise again, As it does so at a rather later date than usual‘ there is a reasonable hope of performance. in Women P: RIANS at Gihuore’s are thinning out at a rate that promises spectators a chance of telling the survivors apart on the final day. Yesrerpay's EmMBEZZLERS appear not to have been church mem) We have always be- lieved that sinners could steal as easily as.any one else if’ they tried. Be It Democratic or RE ican, Congress cannot seem to get along without a taste of Louisiana: the Senate majority is now supposed to have its eye on Kellogg. Tur Branks for reforming the civil serviee have arrived, aud a set of them, honestly filled out by some men already in office, might afford interesting work for men with a genius for cor- recting blunders, Tnerr Is No Reason why the*terrible ca- 4 lamity at Claremont, N. H., whe Jost their lives in w burning hote peated many times in a country where men who are allowed to ereet great curavansaries of wood are not compelled to provide fire esanpes. five persons my not be re- Axy Oxé proposing to devise and bequeath his entire estate to benevolent axsociations should carefully refrain trom dying within two mouths of date of his will. Some religious and charitable socicties are about to mourn nearly a million dollars’ worth because Mr. Henry A. Kerr did not comply with this precaution three years ago. Ts Coxnseque on our advertising colunms we again issue the Herarp to-day in quintuple form, or 20 pages, containing 120 columns. On Sunday last sthe ©HeraLp contained 3,393 — advertise- ments, filling 72 columns and — clussi- fied under 77 headings. Today we print 3,448 advertisements, filling 75 columns and arranged in 74 departments, The 44% remaining columns of to-day’s issue are devoted to news of the day, editorial comments .on current topics and other interesting reading anatter always to be found in our Sunday edi- yesterday afternoon, was felt over a v extensive area, reaching as far south as Virginia. It is snow moving toward Nova Scotia and will be ad- vaneing into the ocean by to-night. The barom- eter is rising rapidly in the West and Northwest, cansing the gradients for northwesterly winds to become very steep. Rain has- fallen in the lower lake regions, the Middle Atlantic,and New England States. There were also some showers in the Gulf States, but these were of short duration. Clearing weather is reported from the Northwest and the South Atlantic In the other districts it has been The winds have been brisk to high in nd generally light elsewhere. The temperature has fallen in the Gulf States and the Northwest, and has re- arly stutiouary in the other parts of ntry. As the disturbance passes into the -Atlantic the gradients for southwest to north- «west winds will become steeper, so that increns- ing wind force may be expeeted in the lower luke region, the Middle Atlautie and New Eng- land States. Our special weather cable from “Europe states that all the western cousts of the British Islands have been warned of the ap- proach of another disturbance. The following avas issucd bythe Meteorological Office in Lon- gdon:-—“Barometer falling again at Valentia, southerly wind rising; hoist south cone.” This shows that the prediction cabled by the Hrratp Weather Bureau on the 27th, at two A. M., ying that “A disturbance will arrive on the ritish and Norwegian coasts between the 20th fre Bilet, attended by southerly gales,” is about be fulfilled. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will bo cooler and cloudy in jthe morning, followed by clearing. To-morrow \it promises to be cool and fair. ‘ The winds will Ancrease during to-day. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1879.—QUINTUPLE SHEET, New Bases of Christian Faith. The current number of the Princeton Review contains an article upon ‘The Pul- pit and Popular Scepticism,” by Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, which is de- serving of thoughtful consideration for more reasons than one. It is, we believe, the first appearance of thet distinguished scholar and eloquent divine in the field of literature outside of the publication of de-+ tached sermons, and it may readily be un- derstood that the oceasion is no common one which tempts him to deliver an earnest message to a wider public than thatof his own denomination and vicinage. In the opinion of Dr. Brooks ‘‘the charac- teristic scepticism of to-day, whether it be that of the untaught people or of the learned scholar, is marked by its complete- ness and despair. It does not suggest any substitute forthe religion which it disbe- lieves and whieh in its active moods it lalors to destroy. It rejects not certain doétrines only, but the whole body of the Christian faith.” This statement may be true ot that attitude of mind which is correctly designated by the term “scepticism,” but it can hardly be accepted as an accurate characterization of that great body of non- Christian thought which Dr. Brooks evi- dently has in mind. This observation is more than a mere verbal criticism, it touches the very root of the matter. The scepticism of the last century and of the first half of the present century no longer exists, it has almost become a lost art, itsfow “survivals” being found chiefly in the ranks of the clergy themselves or of the members of orthodox churches. ‘he attitude of modern non-Christian thought is not one of scepticism, itis one of profound faith in a long array of doctrines which the ortho- dox pulpit as yet refuses to indorse. The faith of the evolutionist is often cherished with an earnestness and fervency almost unknown to the churches, It is not because of isolated doubts that the positivist or evolutionist refuses assent to the'creeds of the churches; it is because he has his own creed, which has very little in common with the former. The tables are turned upon the churches, and it is now in them that real scepticism is chiefly found, whether it take the form of doubt of theological or evolutional creeds, The evolutionism of the present day is not aggressive. It has not been learned from “Tom” Paine, from Voltaire, or even from Strauss, of whose writings the great ma- jority of modern cultured non-Christians are contentedly ignorant. Its true origin is what Matthew Arnold calls the Zit Geist, or spirit of the times, and its sole ambition, as regards the churches, is to be let alone. Traditional Christianity is no more offensive in its eyes than traditional Buddhism or Islamism, provided it do not interfere with freedom of thought and action. ‘The modern evolutionist is pro- foundly satisfied that men and women are not to be convinced by argument, and he wisely declines to make the useless effort. Whereas Paine, Voltaire and Strauss spent laborious years in familiarizing themselves { with the Bible in order to point out its alleged errors, contradictions and absurdi- ties, the modern non-Christian thinks it labor lost to weary himself with the details of an obsolete or obsulescent religious sys- tem. 4 The charge that non-Christians (for so we translate the expression ‘‘popular scepti- cism”) have no substitute for the religion which they disbelieve is conspicuously in- correct. It would be easy to frame a creed rivalling in length the creeds of the churches and containing no doctrines save those which are believed by millions of non- Christians with a unanimity far greater than that of the churches themselves. Without attempting to parody the forms of words held sacred by the Christian world it may be suggested that there is something worthy of attention in the attitude of the mul- titudes who would if necessary endure the tormeuts of the Inquisition fora faith which they might thus express:—‘‘I believe in the eternity of matter, force and intelligence ; in the conservation and correlation of the forces ; in the nebular hypothesis ; in the struggle for life; in the survival of the fit- test ; in the doctrine of heredity ; in the greatest good of the greatest number; in the preponderance of the stronger motive ; in action along the line of least resistance ; in the invariability of law; in the progres- sive development of all things, and the ulti- mate perfectibility of humanity.” The noticeable feature of all this is the fact that every one of these doctrines is dis- tinctly an acquisition of the present cen- tury, and usually of the present generation. ‘These beliefs are not dogmatically opposed to Christianity, except so far as Christian- ity itself has placed itself in needless oppo- sitionto them. Many ot the above doctrines are held as firmly by Christians as by non- Christians, and the drift of belief is steadily toward the incorporation of the whole body of evolutionist doctrine into the unwritten creeds of the churches. These unwritten creeds will not always harmonize with the written creeds, but then the latter are but the expression of varying phases of faith usually long posterior to the founding of Christianity. The evolu- tionists have not wilfully and consciously rejected Christianity. On the ccntrary, few of them could give any intelligible account of the mental processes by which they have become differentiated in faith trom their fathers. It is, as Dr. Brooks admits, useless to expect that the non-believers can be brought back into the fold of the churches even by victoriously refuting in detail every objec- tion that has ever been advanced by them. It is equally futile to hope that the great body ot doctrines of the evolutionist type, which number so many millions of adher- ents, can be stayed in their onward progres- sion by clerical scepticism. But it is not too much to hope that by a candid re. examination of the bases ot their traditional faith and a judicious abandonment of un- tenable positions the churches and science will ere long discover that every essential doctrine of both their creeds may be held in perfect harmony. A comparison of recent numbers of the principal organs of public opinion in Eng- land and America will afford striking illus- “trations of the rapidity of the progress of religious thought toward a cordial under- standing with modern science upon the basis of the acceptance of the main conclu- sions of the latter. The place of honor in the current issues both of the Nineteenth Century and of the Contemporary Review is assigned to thoughtful, earnest articles by clergymen of the Church of England who accept the postulates of the doctrine of evolution. Almost every late num- berof the American theological and critical reviews contains articles of similar purport, and if the occupants of metropolitan pulpits were sworn to make known to-day their individual beliefs upon the subject the sermons reported to-morrow in our col- umns would, in the language of Dr. Brooks, “greatly surprise and at the same time greatly relieve” their congregations. One of our contemporaries three days ago called upon the New York clergy to state their real opinions to-day upon the doctrines of verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, the everlasting punishment of the wicked and the observance of the Sabbath. Should the invitation be generally accepted this date will be a memorable one in the history of the reconciliation of religion with science. The German Police Post Office. Herr Liebknecht repeated in the German Reichstag on Thursday the charge that ‘the inviolability of letters guaranteed by the constitution had become worthless” be- cause of the frequent and abusive use the police made of the right to scrutinize pack- ages addressed to supposed socialists, But the Postmaster General declared categori- cally that ‘‘no sealed inland packets have ever been opened,” and that upon investi- gation he had found that the cases cited Ly Herr Liebkuecht were groundless. In the face of such a response it must be supposed that all that has been said by the German socialists on this subject is mere clamor from opponents of the government. and the Dr. Talmage’s Opportunity. The community seems to be divided as tothe expediency of the trial which is in progress in Brooklyn. .A large number of conservative people, both in the Church’ and out of it, teel unwilling to be held ac- countable for the extraordinary methods ‘which the defendant sees fit to pursue for the purpose of gathering the largest con- gregation which listens to any preacher on this continent. While admitting the gen- eral fact that Dr. Talmage is thoroyghly or- thodox in his theology, and the further fact that he has been undoubtedly instrumental in accomplishing much good among a cer- tain class, they nevertheless express a very decided repugnance to the pyrotechnic character of his services, and re- gard them as imperilling the good of the Church. They also affirm that when the question of falsehood and dishonesty at- taches itself toa clergyman who is one of a large number who compose the Presby- terian body, and to such an extent that the knowledge of the public makes it a matter of ‘‘common fame,” it is due to the accused, and also to the denomination to which he belongs, to institute a careful and-rigorous investigation, and either condemn him as a wrongdoer or pronounce him innocent in the face of the world. A still larger number, perhaps, look on the action of the Court as a palpable interfer- ence with the liberty of the preacher. While admitting the bad taste which is said to be so prominent in many of the utter- ances of Dr. Talmage, and conceding the general fact that in his business transac- tions he has shown a certain lack of practi- cal worldly wisdom, still it has something of the air of persecution to arraign him be- fore an august tribunal and io make very grave charges of personal dereliction which may or may not be sustained. We have watched the proceedings thus far with considerable interest. It is not a civil, but an ecclesiastical trial, and the proceedings are marked by methods very different trom those pursued in an ordinary court of law. It is to be hoped that these contrasts will become even more pro- nounced as the case is developed. The ob- ject of the counsel on both sides is sup- posed to be to get at the exact, the whole, truth, gnd it would be regarded as uncleri- cal to make use of those entangling techni- calities by which many o cause is won or lost. The Presbyterian body is itself on trial, and the community will soon have an opportunity to make up its mind as to the ability of that body to condemn a minister who has resorted to dishonest practices, or to prove beyond a doubt the innocence of one who has been scandalized. In the common court room a witness is sworn to tell the whole truth, but seldom permitted to do so. The object of the counsel for the plaintiff is to extort just facts enough from the evidence to win his case, and to skilfully cover up that part of the truth which might tell against it, The counsel for the defence proceeds on the same basis, and makes strategic points to the same end. In an ecclesiastical court, on the other hand, the object of all parties concerned in the case should be to lift the cover off of everything that is hidden and to expose to view the exact condition ot affairs, The precise truth is said to be the only object aimed at, and to attempt te conceal, or hide, or avoid anything of whatsoever nature would at once lower the Presbyterian court—made up of individuals who, according to the Book of Discipline, act as judges of the court of Jesus Christ -to the level of an ordinary tri- bunal. On this ground we affirm that the present trial is the grandest opportunity which has ever occurred in the life of Dr. Talmage. That the air has been filled with certain vague, and, we hope, unfounded, charges against him; that bis character as a busi- ness man has to a serious extent been called in question in some quarters, is con- ceded by all. That he most solemnly. asserts his entire innocence and declares not only that he has been impelled by no wrong motive, but also that his various transactions have accorded with the require- ments of the moral law, and that every ac- cusation against him is false and can bo proven so, is matter of cominon knowledge. ‘This being the case he can demand nothing less than a sharp and exhaustive investiga- tion of his course, to the end that he may be vindicated by his peers. The court has been convened for the purpose of exonerat- ing him from charges which if disregarded may tend to injure his influence and bring the ministry of the body to which he be- longs into disrepute, No one has a case to win or lose, neither will the result turn on any fine subtleties of law. Tho whole court, moderator, counsel and the reverend clergy who are to actas judges, have but one object, and that is to discover the truth or falsity of certain injurious reports, and Dr. ‘Talmage has at last found the means of forever closing the lips of all detractors by proving beyond a doubt that every charge made against him is false, Interview With Mayor Cooper=—The Police Commissioners to be Removed ‘at Once.” The conversation with the Mayor which we print this morning is perfectly satisfac- tory on the main point respecting which citizens who demand reconstruction of the Police Department'were beginning to be anxious. We are assured by the Mayor, in language as positive as it could well be made, that the certificates of removal are to be .put in form without fur- ther delay and forwarded at once to the Governor. The city has witnessed so many abortive attempts at removals under the last two municipal administrations that when Mayor Cooper so long deterred ac- tion on the case of the Police Commission- ers it is not surprising that people began to inquire if there was to be another simi- lar fiasco. ‘The Mayor does not explain the reasons of his uncxpected procrastination; but citizens will have no great curiosity respecting them now that they are assured with so much emphasis that there is to be no further delay and that the removals are to be certified to the Governorat once. The friends of order, cleanliness, and efficiency would have been pained and mortified if Mayor Cooper had added another to the list of instances in which the vigor of the war against recreant officers did not come up to the promise of the manifesto. We suppose it to be of minor importance whether the Mayor has been correctly ad- vised on disputable points of law. Gov- ernor Robinson, who is to pass on the re- movals, is both a sound lawyer and a most careful, wary and painstaking officer, and if there are defects in the evidence or errors in the mode of hearing, it is competent for the Governor to remit the case.to the Mayor to supply deficiencies either of form or substance. Besides, it is the right of the Governor to: investigate the cases for himself and to seek other evidence than that transmitted to him by the Mayor—a right which was strongly asserted by Governor Tilden in his letter to Mayor Wickham in the case of Corporation Counsel Smith. We are entirely confident that so vigorous and circumspect an officer as Governor Robinson will not permit any legal loophole to be lett through which the courts can reinstate the removed Com- missioners. If he discovers. that the Mayor has made oversights or been ill advised as to’ any point of law he will remand the case to the Mayor for rectifica- tion before acting on it himself, if he should be satisfied, as he must be, that there are substantial grounds for removal. We have no further fears that the three ac- cused Commissioners will keep their places. Let us hope that their successors will be men of character and vigor, and that, warned by the fate of their predecessors, they will not be remiss in the discharge of their duties. Athleticism and Cruelty. Attention is very properly called by the Philadelphia doctors to the spectaclo of a “woman show” now before the public in their city. By the terms of the match in which the women are there engazed, they must make four thousand qaar‘er miles in four thousand consecutive quarter hours. Four thousand quarter hours run through forty-one days and sixteen hours, and for that extended period these women can never get a good sleep—since even with the best strategy on the part of their attendants they can never be off the course for more than twenty minutes at any one time. ‘There is no doubt that the women are sometimes simply dragged around the course while asleep. It is a cruel, brutal and disgusting exhibition. And this is done in the name of the enthusiasm. for. athletic sports. We are as much an advocate of those sports as any one, but we would like to see them always confined to their legitimate limits and to the rational purpose of the improve- ment of the physical frame of the people. Pedestrian exercise has become popular with our people lately, aad should have legitimate encouragement. It will be a public misfortune to have it degraded by brutal catch-penny shows like the one objected to, and we hope the police of Philadelphia will act on the suggestion of the physicians and stop it it Topics To-Day. A correspondent who feels an inclination, as he says, to complain against the levity displayed in these columns on religious things, writes from Selma, Ala., and cites two instances which do not bear upon the charge atall, and with it fails to send his name, ought to be passed by in silence. But it may be well tor the benefit of others to add that except when the topic gives the impression of sensationalism or frivolity we do not discuss it or refer to it with levity, Here is an explanation of sickness nearly thirty-eight hundred years old to be given by Mr. Virgin to-day, which may or mny not be on very serious re- ligious subject. And here is another by Mr. Martyn, which, it is presumed, a good many people know something about— namely, “What Is Christianity?” hat question was properly in order before its failure was predicted. Another very seri- ous subject will be discussed by Dr. Sim- mons—namely, ‘Does Christianity Evjoin Intellectual Culture?” Missionary novel- ties, which Mr. Searles will discuss, is also a serious matter, The lost ompires of the world and their buried cities may possibly be made subservient to the great end of preaching by Dr. Newman; the peril and safety of the Church and the freedom of the truth are proper themes to be discussed by Dr. King, ond the man with the angel’s face may be a fit study for Dr. Rogera. Not many such men appear among us in these days. ‘The rejection of self-righteous persons and the acceptance of sinners by Christ is a theme to be emphasized by Mr. Coleord, and the forgetfulness of forgiven sins by God may properly be brought to the mind of the believer by De. ‘Lyng, Jr., as an encourage- ment to perseverance in good works. Mr. Odell will discuss sensationalism; Mr. Sweetser will open the straight gate; Mr. Johnson wi!l show how to get rid of the évil of intemperance, and Mr. Evans will take a retrospect. The lying spirits of the world will be rebuked by Mr. Pullman, and the contrast between divine and human forgiveness will be made by Mr. Affleck, Light will be thrown on a dark doctrine by Mr. Kramer; Christ's temptation in Jerusalem will be explained by Mr. Davis; the gospel’s unchangeable de- cree will besct forth by Mr. Ackerly; the man who wished to be saved in his chariot will be introduced by Mr. Lloyd; the Bible, first and last, will be Mr. Hepworth’s boos; the rule of divine peace will be laid down by Mr. Hull, and thé ways and evils of licen- tiousness will-be pointed out by Mr. Hum- phrey; infidelity will be condemned by Mr. Moment, and the culture of character be commended by Mr. Newton. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘Lhe Albany Press has new type. Have any of the idiots asked, What did the pipe stem? Can the Senatorial caucus room be called a policy shop? General Butler is the one who takes stercoscopic views of polities, Hanlan’s oars are to be white. show the white feather, Shad flies and spring bonnets are waiting for the frost to get out of the ground. ‘The worst feature about Anger is that its throttle vaive is open too often.--Erratique ssnrique, Yonkers Gazette: —Trying to get to Heaven without faith is about like setting out in® silk tights to climb a greased pole.”” Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, and his son-in-law, Baron Klenck, of Hanover, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Liszt receives $3,000 a year and a title in Hungary. If his life of Chopin is any criterion the old musi- clan cannot write. Captain Ferdinand ‘De La Kethulle, Envoyé Extra- ordinaire from Brussels, Belgium, is at Ottawa, Canada, on a hurried visit. King Kalakaua, of Hawaii, has knighted Claus Spreckies, of San Francisco, for his services in de- veloping the resources of the Hawaiian Islands. ‘The New Orleans Picayune says there is a stray brass band wandering about Now Orléans streets and that the owner can have it by proving property and taking it away. Jones said, looking into the glass the other morn- ing, “I am a man with three heads on my shoul- ders—the ono I sev, the one I feel and the one that Brown put on me.” The Phrenological Journal does not like funny news- paper paragraphers, Ah! Mr, Phrenologist, if you only knew that funay newspaper paragraphers have on their heads as many buinps.as a democratic torch- light procession. ‘The bridesmaids of Princess Louise Margaret were ordered, to have dresses in uniformity, to go to a cer- tain modiste who charged fifty guineas, and to give a check of fifty guineas | i) ure that they would buy the Princess a present. New Haven Register:—“Wash a baby up clean and dress him up real pretty, aud he will resist all ad- ‘vances with a most superlative crossness; but let him cat molasses ¢ingerbread and fool around the coal-hod for half an hour. and he will nestls his dear little dirty face close up to your clean shirt bosom and be just the lovingest, cunningest little rascal in all the world.” Ayoung lady of Shelbyville, Ind., recently died while two physicians and their partisans in her fam- fly were quarreling loudly and bitterly over the right of precedence in treating her. The case of right of precedenco is still undecided, and the two physicians and the two branches of the family are still fighting. The girl was buried day before yester- day. Kinglake, the historian of the Crimean war, casts his eyes down when his photograph is taken, and this gives him a mild and retiring appearance. Peo- ple will hardly believe that he is sixty-eight years old. The effect that his sarcastic, studied and circumlocu- tionary rhetoric had upon the court of Napoleon III. probably retarded his work, if it did not, through the influence of the English government, wholly dis- courage him. ‘Thomas Hardy, who is the only rival of William Black for the honor of being the most popular of recent English novelists, is thirty-cight years old and was educated in a provincial village, becoming, as one might fancy from his figures of specch, the apprentice of a country architect. In London, how- ever, he became a student under Blomfield and a disciple of the Gothic school, He won prizes in architecture, and studied to be an art critic. Finally he chose fiction. New Haven Register:—“It is amusing once in a while to notice the manner in which an amateur will help along a joke." The Henatp P. 1. a iew days ago asked the question, ‘What did the paper collar?’ Of course » long array of questions fol- lowed from the newspapers all over the country, each reterring to some article of wearing.apparel, as ‘Whom did the shirt cuff?’ ‘What did the neck- tie?’ &e., util some squibbler caps the climax by asking, in ail innocence, ‘What did the cat-nip?’ Hope he will not OBITUARY. ALEXANDER J. DERBYSHIRE. . Alexander J, Derbyshire, one of the most promi- nent Phildelphia merchants and business men, a leader in the community of Friends anda citizen who had become widely known id commercial and private circles died in that city yesterday, in the seventy-first year of his age. For some time past he has not been in good he jth, but he was not pros- trated until a week ago, when he was seized with con- gestion of the bowels, and this running into pneu- monia proved fatal. Mr. Derbyshire was born of Quaker parents on December 2), 1808, and in his boyhood received a plain education at the Friends’ Schoolhouse. On July 2, M2, when he was in his sixteenth year he eatered the flour store of Timothy Paxson, Mr. Derbyshire appears to have improved the opportunities, for in 1896, when Paxson retired, # partnership was formed between the former errand boy and Mr. Watson Jonks. This firm continued the business of the old house with ace ‘until 1846, when Mr. Jenks retived and Mr. Derbyshire went on alone, enlarging the business of the concern and increasing his own rep- utation for tact and fortunate enterprise, Mr. Alex- ander J, Derbyshire was an active member of the Board of Trade and had been instrumental in secure ing various improvements in its organization, ren- dering it a vigorous and influential body, ACHILLE TENAILLE DE VAULABELLE, FRENCH HISTOKIAN, ‘M. de Vaulabelle, whose death was yesterday an- nounced by 4 cable despatch, was born at Chatel- Censoir in 1799, was for some time employed in the office of tho Prefect of the Department of Youne, aad became in 1824 an opposition journalist in Paris, During tho reign of Louis Philippe he wrote for the National and other democratic periodicals, and pub- lished @ “History of Modern Egypt from 1801 to 1883" (two volumes, 1885), and @ “History of the Two Restorations’ (eight volumes, 1844 et sey), In 1848 he declined the offer of tho missions to London and Berlin, was chosen deputy for Yonne, and became president of the Committee on Public Instruction, Alter the retire- ment ot rnot M, Vaulabelle was fy otro by oo ignac Minister of Public ruction, ie opp he gold ct Napoleon and lived in re- tirement during the ire, on iu revising his hi ; former works and in peeing ® new one, “The | History of the Monarehy of duly, of the Second | Republic and of the Second Empire.” His younger » Eléonore, who died in October, ), Wats well known dramatic writer. LEON DE MALEVILLE, aah The cable this morning anuounces the death of M. Leon de Mileville, a member of the French Senate, at Paris yesterday, He was born at Montauban, Muy 8, © 1803, and belonged to an old family of the Rhone provinces, He completed his studies in the law at Paris and was admitted as an advocate in 1823. He was an at taché of the cabinet of M, Hennequin (1828), and in his capacity of private secretary to M. de Preissac, his uncle, he came to the political surface after the revolution of, 1833, He now belonged to the unpop- ular side and took an early opportunity to change his opinions. He entered the Chamber of Deputies (1834), and received the cross of: an officer of the Legion of Honor 1849, He now became @ warm partisan of M, Thiers, and a violent advocate of the moderate principles of that distinguished leader. He took a prominent part tn the Constitu- tional Assembly of 184%. After the coup d'état of De- cember 2, 1851, M. Maleville retired to private life, takiny no part in politica until he was ted a lite Senator last year. REV. JOHN MACDONALD. Rev. John Macdonald, vicar general, late parish priest of St. Raphacls, died at Lancaster, Ont., om March 15, He was a nutive of Scotland, He was born at Knoidart, Inverness, 1782, When four ycare old his father bronght him to Canada, Macdonald, | Sr., was one of the band ot 500 Highland omigrants * who, under the guidance of their priest, at Quebes in the snmmer of 178. The young man early resolved to enter the priesthood, and was ordained in 1814, He had charge of the parish of St. Raphaels, Glengarry, until 1822. Ho was then transe ferred to Pesth, but in 1837 returned to Baphaels, where he remained until 1867, THOMAS V. JOHNSON, “ Thomas V. Johnson, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Newark, dict in Morristown, N.J., on Friday evening. He was one of the oldest business men of Newark, and, with the late John H. Stephens, was @ pioucer in the steam navigation of the Passaic River. He was connected with some of the largest Newark financial institutions. He died in seventicth year. GEORGE W JOHNSTON, George W. C. Johnston, ex-Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and ‘or many years a prominent democratic politician of Ohio, died ut his residence in that city last night. He had served two terms as Mayor and in various other municipal offices of trust, and was widely known throughout the country. He was fifty-two years old. MATTHEW P, BEMUS, Matthew P, Bomus, a prominent citizen of James- town, N. ¥., and for five years a momber of the As- sembly, died Friday night at Mayville, aged sixty-one, ‘The funeral will take place to-morrow morning at Be- mus’ Point. WHAT BOYS SHOULD LEARN. The last lecture, but one, of the course for 1878 and 1579, was delivered last evening in the large hall of the Cooper Institute by Professor Charles A. Thomp- son, of Worcester, Muss. .The hall was pretty well filled and the boys, for whose instruction and bencfit the lecture was given, were present in respectable numbers. The subject of the lecture was “What Boys Ought to Learn.” The lecturer commenced b; quoting the answer of the Athenian when asl what boys ought to learn, namely, that ‘Boys should learn to be men.” Primary education, as taught in the public schools, he contended, was not suffi- cient, and he insisted upon the necessity of higher schools where the foundation was laid for their career in future life, From sixteen to twenty-one the young man laid up a store of mental treasure, to be increased day by day for future plans and opera- tious. Education, he said, was a necessity for all. as the perpetuation of our system of government and civilization rested upon the rca ema ot the peo- ple. He doubted . the feasibility or necessit; of forced education by law, and contras the German boy’s ideas with the Americ boy’s ideas. The German boy was taught to ol and knew, if he knew anything, one thing w while the American boy was independent and‘knew no master, and not only knew one thing but a little of everything. The lecturer dwelt at considerable lengih upon handicraft and engineering, and spoke rather too rapidly from his manuscript for the boys to understand him properly. He then spoke of an institute in Worcester, Mass., and gave in detail ‘the parce objects and operations of tho institute. ‘he lecture was listened to with much attention, The venerable Peter Cooper, during the delivery of the lecture, occupied his customary seat on tho platform. MANHATTAN BANK ROBBERY, After the robbery of the Manhattan Bank last October, 8 law was passed in Congress authorizing the issue ot duplicate bonds for the registered bonds which “had been stolen. All tho registered bonds stolen have since been recovered. Only a short time elapsed after the robbery when some of the stolen mn bonds were “called” for redomption, and noti was given in the customary manner. The firm of L. Von Hoffmann & Co., ikers, of Wall street, recently received from their ndon house three coupon bonds of $1,000 each, which had been called for redemption in the United States, and they proved. 80 itis alleged, to be some of the stolen bonds. they were presented at the Treasury Department and redeemed, Yon Hoffmann & Co, receiving the money. A meeting of the trustees of the Manhattan Bank was convened, and they directed their counsel, Mr. Waldo Hutchins, to institute proceedings against Von Hoffmann & Co. for the recovery of the proceeds of the bonds, SZEGEDIN RELIEF COMMITTEE. A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION EFFECTED—GEN- EROUS SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE SUFFERERS. A permanent organization for the relief of the Szegedin sufferers has been effected in this city, the following named gentlemen consenting to act as a re- lief committee:—Oswald Ottendorfer, president; 8, D. Sewards, vice president; E. J. Villanyi, secre- tary; Leopold Friedmann, assistant secretary; Fran- cis Korbaby, assistant secretary; August Belmont, treasurer, ‘The following gentlemen form the Executive Com- mittec:—Messrs, Edward Cooper, 8. D, Babcock, Cyrus W. Field, E. 8. Higgins, Jose F. Navarro, Theo- dore A. Havemeyer, Charies F. Livermore, Frederick Kuhne, Frederic Coudert, Edwards Pierrepont, John Jay, Henry Bergh, Julias Hallgarten, Horace Russell, L. Von Hoffm Charles P. Daly, William Stein- Lester ‘k, Fletcher en Charles: . Chickering, Joi L. Mott, ral Her- man Uhl, Edward Salomon, F, B, Thurber, Max Fleischmann, Clark Be:l, Colonel Joel W. Mason, 8. L. M. Barlow, M. Otterbourg, Charles L, Joseph -Goldmark, M. D.; Moritz Ellinger, Appleton, Gustave Schwab, A. Heller, Frederick H. Betts, Joseph 8. Moore, Albert Weber, John Keyes Bailey, August 0. Beckstein, William Kurtz, Geo: W. Da Cunha, Samuel 8. Sanford, 8. B. Wortmann, 3. Rittig, Julian Nathan, William M, Fliess. ‘The following subscriptions were reported at the office of the Szegedin Relicf Committe yesterday ;— Previously acknow- Moore, Tingue&Co. $10 +. $2,352 bay: sae jrot.ers Co. 5 10 5 6 6 pL] Moritz Cohn. 5 Conrad Hetn lo Heinrich Helmrich. 10 P. Amend, 1s ‘T. Botz.. 6 Brown Bros. oe 5 Drexel, Morgan & HH. A. Paige. ' 10 Co. 100 Moses Blam & Weil = 10 10 A Friend of the 23 Hungarians 1 25 Hellomberg & 10 enstein. . . 10 Naumburg, Krauss, Carter,Stewart&Co, 10 Lauer & Co..... 66 5 Materne & Mayer... 3 Rosenstein Bros... Samuel Pollack... . 10 HL. O. Bernard & Co. a E. F, Knowlton. 1 Coffin & Hurlba: 2 Searle, Daily & Co.. 10 The Union and Bay % State Manufactur- Ww ing Company..... 10 Scheuer & Bro...... 25 Dakerhoft, Raffloer H. Walluch’s Sons... 25 KO * . 10 Strassburger, Pteit- 4 Ww fer & Co: 6 Horathal, head ‘Total WHAT BISHOP DOANE SAID. ALBANY, March 28, 1879, To tre Eprron or rae Henanw:— A reported conversation between one of your re porters, and myselt found place in your paper last ‘Tuesday, It was so accurate in the main, and the single prominent mistako so evidently an accident of writing or of printing, that I was content to let my opinions go for what they aro worth. But since I find there is one person at least inclined to suppose that Tam 4 coiner of unauthorized and unintalligivle words, will you Kindly say that “a cirriferous” to have read ‘‘a corporate reunion of Christen- ht aot Yar ery WILLIAM CROWELL DOANE,