The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 24, 1868, Page 2

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ADYRRITEING RATES Fornm?, rine. if ‘Three lines (20 words) or Lert Drien Pa per line . nai = The Hon, E. Be. Washburne to be Sceretary of the Tuterior, We thnk we cannot be wrong in annonne- Ing that the Ion. Exrne B. Waenne Din will take office in Gen. Grant's Acininistration as Secretary of the Interior. Mr, Wasitnunsr will enter upon the dis. | tharge of his duties with the enviable repu- tation of an honest statesman and a mere lows feud of economy in the public expenti tures, It is grenorally Delieved that the Interior Department badly needs reforming, both in potut of honesty and economy. If Mr. Waspensa should succeed in such a teform—and he certainly does not need to bo informed that it is no holiday taskk—he wil] render a memorable service to the coun- try, and add to his own honorable renown, This appointment may be taken as afford. Ing conclusive evidence upon a point on which no new evidence was wanting, namely, Maat Gen. Giant does not forget his frieuds. ———— ee The Arrest of Mr. Bowles. Mr. Bowsus, of the Springfleld Repudtt- tan, Whose arrest and incarceration in Lud. low street jail, at the instance of Mr. Jasns Fisk, Jr, we roported yesterday morning, was released early in the day. Bail in the amount of filty thousand dollars was given for him by Mr, Cynus W. Fretp and Mr. A. A. Setoven. The annoyance of confine. ment for asinglo night in jail Mr. Bowes endured with good humor, as a novel oxpe- Ficaco in Hfe; ro that the purpose of Mr. Fisk to cause him extreme annoyance and inconveniences was not ac The only very unpleasant circumstance inthe case was that Mrs, BowLns, who is an inva lid, was in town at the time, and could not but suffer considerably from the unexpected and rather alarming absence of her husband, Possibly the gratification which Mr. Fisk may derive from hoving Infiicted Intense pain upon a most estimable Iady, whose nerves had Leon Drought by sicknoes to a tondition of peculiar sensitivences, n mako up for the failure to work the desired degree of torture upon her husband, pear to be the most severe: “Nothing more audocious, nothing more gigantic ing, has ever been perpéteated in the way of ewi in (his country; and yet it may be thet Mr. Fiee aud his exsociates have done nothing that they can- not legally justify, at least fn the New York courts, several of which they seem wholly toown, # & © Many even of his friends predict for him the State Prison or the lunatic asylum, Formerly it was doubted whether tho word swindler was actionable, In England and in Massachusetts it was held that to call a man a swindler was not libellous, as tho word awindler waa too general; but if it meant cheat, then it was actionable, To one cld case the Court sustained a ver. (ict for calling the plaintiff a “damned awindler,” but expressed no opinion as to whether the word damned strengthened the epithet ewindler or not, In that case, how- ever, the defendant had called the plaintiff a thief as well as a swindler, In tho first case in which this question arose in Massachusetts, Judge Sepawick adopted the Euglish doctrine that tho word swindler Lad Leon 60 recently introduced intoour language from the German that it was as yet of indefinite meaning, and did not with certainty import an indictable of fenea, Tt can no longer be nald that swindling is not perfectly familiar to the American peo- ple, in fact and in phrase. But Mr. Bowhrs clearly shows that he does not mean to im pute any indictable offenceto Mr. Fiex, be cause heexpressly disclaims any auch idea, Tt has been held in this State that to call a man swindle: is not actionable, Perhaps now, in @ newspaper article, and without qualifeation—though Mr. Bownns used a ry portant qualification—it would be held act onable, Iy it a Nbel to fay that a inan’s friende pre. et for him the State Prison or the lunatic asylum? Kome of our high public officers have been in the Penitentiary, and others o to bein the State Prison, Thero are single streets in this city where, about the middle of the day, there aro probably more rascals than in any Stato Prison; and it would not be a libel to eay that a man’s friends thought he would gonerally be found in such astreet, ‘To say that tho State Prison is predicted for aman doca not necessarily imply that he deserves to go there, Notatall, There are some in- nocent men inside and & great many guilty once outside, Then about a Junatic asylum, It can hardly any longer be regarded as evidence that a man fs insano for him to be seat toa lunatic asylum, Had Mr. Misx been in the Junatic axylum a short time ago, he might have enjoyed the delightful and instructive society of Commodore Mrapr. Insanity fs very reepectable indeed nowadays, quite as much so as stock gambling. If Mr. Fisk is a stout and portly Falstafian sort of man, we do not think that charge necd have re- duced his personal corporation at all, what- over effect it may have had on the Erie, But admitting, for the sake of tho argu. ment, the article to have been libellous, what then? Eventhen it constituted only a prima Sacie ease, to which thero might Le a conclu. sive defence when it should come to trial. But Mr. Fisk, finding Mr. Bowres in this State, bad a right to an order of arrest, and Judge MCCUNN would have done right to grant such an order at a seasonablo hour, and the Sheriff would have acted right in serving it, not in an oppressive manner, As it war time and the manver of serv. Phere is something in the fecling which diet A the manacr of this arrest which is truly contemptible. ‘That Mr. Fisk should Le agerieved by Mr. Bownes's comments upon himself in connection with the recent | trausactions of tho Krie Railway direetion, is not eurprl If ho desived to procure ® by means of a uit for damayos, it Aw a libel ion In » perfectly proper to do so, didera from an ort allogir on injury to r, the law also allows the arrest of the ndant, and his confinement until he has given sce curity for his appearance at thetral, Itwas then yy tly in order for Mr. Fisk to have Mr. Bowsers arrested, ond to compel hin to n Vail; and had nothing: more been done in this caso,it would have excited no unu- sual attention, But the sort of arrangement into which Mr. Fisk seems to have entered with shorifl’s officers, to seize his enemy at a isadvantage, aud to liamure im so that for twelve hours at Teast his rescue would be Impossible, wasn base and petty proce which @ gentleman might possibly be 1 Into undor the influence of extreme anger, but which he would afterward be hearuly aalamed of, and endeavor to npologize for by every means in his power, The Arrest of Mr. Bowles en Outroge against Perso: Liberty. inhabtant of the State The r of New rk wow «® put in jeopa the toleration of such a wrong as was coin. mitted on Tues person of Mr, Samvesn Bows Avenue Hotel, in this « Mr. Bow 6 the editor of the lending paper of New England, published at Spriige fleld, Massne tts, called the Repub ican, In a reeent editorial article he commented on the managementof the Erie Ra‘lway affairs, and of the litigations which have occup’ our courts respecting the issue of stock by the direetors of that Mr, Bow14s's remarks were not complimentary to the part enacted in these railway matters by Mr. Janus Fisk, Jr, who, it seoms, was at one time a resident of the town of Sprin ficld, where Mr. Bow1ns’s paper is published, The wife of Mr. Bowits is an invalid, #v fering from an asthinatic affvetion, and fe the Denefit of a change of air Mr. BowLre recently brought her to whe they are at present temporarily arnt Mr. Bows is a geotleman of ample pecuniary respons bility, and well known to be such, Mr. Fisk brought an action in the or Court of this clty against Mr, us for libel, laying his damages at fifty thousand dollars. On Tuesday evening he obtained trom Judge McCun™, of that ay evening Yast upon the , at the Pith corporation, litle satellite the moon Las also had some exper Court, an order of arrest againet Mr, Hitherto we have borne this injustice un- | rience of tho same sort, The volcanic moun- Bows.ns. This was under the 179th eco | complainingly, We thought the World | tain, known to astronomers as Lingwus,” has tion of the Code, which provides that the | might awaken, of its own — accord, | fortwo years past exhibited great changes, and detendant may be arrested where the action | to a sense of its unfairne Wo | lately it has been discovered to be in a state of fe for an injury to character, did not like to make any injurious | stive eruption, Of course the phenomenon fy The aflidavit of Mr. Fisk, on which the | reflections on the editor of that paper, when onter of arrest was obtained, sets forth that | we were running him for Mayor. Moreover, Mr. Bow1xs had published of ond concern. | when we saw an apparent acquiescence of fog Lim an article contaluiug certain Ubel | Mz, Hovratan tn an appropriation of five ing tho order were evidently very deliberate. | ly selected, with a view of causing personal mortifiention and the ntmest possible incon. | venience and annoydnes to Mr. Bows.tea, | ‘There was no need of an petual arrest | Vor, All that was requisite wasto notil | lous statements, of which the following ap- thohennd dollars to noe him eafely to Albany where tho Harlem or Hudson Iiver rail- road would take him for three dollars and twenty cents, with only twenty-five cents ‘extra for insurance against accidents thrown in—we began to doubt whether we wanted any of the honor of electing him, We were like the old hunter in the story: if the ani. mal turned ont to be a deer, we shot to kill; if he turned out to be aealf—or, to improve upoa the story, a donkey—we fired to miss. Now that Mr. Horraan has declined the costly escort, and has refused to sulject the city toa needless expenditure, we are more in- ined to assert our share in making him | matdens Governor. Tho World must not forget that he could not havo been elected if ho had not been no- minated, Monrriy had tho lead in the raco for the nomination decidedly, Did we not ehow rome ingenuity in defeating him? We called him Lorr and Gitnravr’s candidate, That proved to be sufficient. Wo dare say it was tho first timo that Lort’s bad mnn- Wo were so delighted, that the idea of a pa- established, both by Lord Etpon and Mr. Justice Stony, that you cannot patent the new use of an old article, Besides, we con- sidered that ff left open to the public, no- body else would ever want to use them. feebleness of Judge Gitnent—pretty diff. cult to he made useful, we confess, But wo farmors re of those d » rich and fragrant crops; 80 out nomination of eur tien popular Mayor for tears. For during the intervening dave between | Governor, | Coricmas post aad Christmas present, death bas Tho World, whila exposing the short | been bay —the a 4 wore and weighta of the retail dealers, must not make that took apwaed. He by oN rire bed ered ah a oi ta couteraya. | 20T8 of many « lifeumotterably dear to ae, and ther any short weights in er to itse my rough the magic of his fin rories; that is, 60 long as Gov, Horrman continues to do well, It may have any amount of monopely In ANDREW Jolt and we some. —— Light Punishment Proposed Tho recent execution of ANvL and | eNO at New Albany, Ind, by @ mob, after ‘y had been delivered up under tho extra. dition treaty, has attracted the attention of Congress. Senator Trumucen has intro- duced ® Wil providing that if any person thall resist or oppose an agent cor ng or keeping prisoner delivered up by any forcigm Government for the purpose of being brought within the United States and tried for any crime of which he is accused, he ahall De fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, ‘and imprisoned not exceeding one yenr. Under this Inw, if it had been in forco at the time, the persons composing the mob who killed the four prisoners in the jail at New Albany could have heen fined not over a thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than a ycar, That is something, to be sure. If the bill is passed, it will show that the Government of the United States does place rome estimate, though a very small one, on the valuo of personal righte. A Post Office clerk who breaks open a let. ter and steals a skein of sowing silk out of it cannot be punished by imprisonment for less than fen years, It is said that the di ment is to be regarded as evidence of the pros e8 of civilization, Senator Trempuns sary to en diminution of brains by making th ourayre @ punish cc A, ners were ever converted to a goood purpose, | befell tent at once occurred to us. But we reflected | gow drops apon th that the principle of law had been long | first shed tor him or that day by lis beloved? Who: ful materiale we forced the | | ewes and) THE SUN, THURSDAY, DECKMBER. 24, 4 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, “ my Liat te A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to allt To enemies as well as to friends! Once again the dear old Christmas Day has retnen- ed to ue—tho merriest, heartiest, and happlest day ofall the year! As beautiful in the eanctity and re- ligtous adoration whieh clook its spirit Mie a gar. ment caught from the shrines of heaven, and the worship of the angels, a4 it ix pure ond holy in tho love of Its famfly eirels, and the reunion of very dear and long separated ends, Tt brings with it ‘ail the old associations of bygone years, the ha: memorics that are garlanded with evergreens an flowers, and come dancing around ms, a9 we ait be- fore the Wlazing yale log, like the troop of merry wat followed tue timbrel of tho dark-cyed Miriam as sho went forth with song and rejoicing after the triumph of Ist ol over the ' in the Red Sex—memorics o full of sunshine, music, and Jollity, that they ean never die, and would make even a wildornes# of fee and #now to blossom liko the rose; followed, however, and all too goon, by fud and mournful grouns, & pageant of eypress bearers, and the pathetic imagery of death and the gray For who does not remember sweet and plereant things, like the aroma of lilics and violets, whieh im On the Inst Christmas day? What lover, for cxample, does not treasure ap tie bright riniles, and tendor words, aad ineffable graces whieb, like hyme banks of Hermon, were dors not recall the pressure of friendly hands, the pictare of joyous frees round the fire, the dear, “good gray heads” of father and mother, the bloomy cheeks of happy tisters, the manly Bearing of stal- wart brothers, thegathering together of dear friends over the hoxpitatfe board, the grand old healths Then, too, we utilized the fickleness and | 4'urk tn deep wasall cups, the sone, muste, stories, quips, and merry Jokes, the games of the dear ehil- pwning game of blind man's ned With hilarious spirits, whether in witlets all Jot remembered how out of unpleasant fertilizers | youn or old? t These are memoria which belong to weal, They are the Christmas traditions which kept the yer Sweet aleo and sad—sad to sweet | wed one has walked out y. That dear divine cle; but they silenty await oar coming In the lend | where there Is no more parting, Or, berbaps, tts @ | tor or a brother, wife or a chil, almost as dear, whan we miss in tl ing. And in either suse, we feet th ftnenee, and if we we the sadder, we are surely the Deiter for it. ‘Thoe losses are the minors tn Hite J touch w Into pathos and a deep ten yinding us mire clovely In syinpathy and feol- Jng with the univenal fmiiies of mankind, But while st is Mting and poetie that we, throngh oar rorrows, thoult touch the michty dlanason of tuat sorrowtal lamony which swelled In anch eud- line vumbers throigh the life of the * Man of Sor- rows,” it ia nlso fiting that we should rejolee with Joy ainspeakuble” sver the Incarnation of that Migh+ eat Lord, who cane “to Ket free the captive * and bring light and immortality to if.” Let the Hearts of the nations blow their trumpets of joy and welcome, therofore over this Eternal Birth, in reply to the tradition @ tho heralding argets and thelr message of gind dings, a# it comes down to through the Jonedrawn aisles of the centurios Amnidet the accianations of mankind and the noble triumphs of Christan elvilization It is a Wonder history tte of Christmas Day. From the first promulgation of Christianity .o the present time ft hasbeen a festival day, and religion herself, Inspired ty the human bernty of the #rene and the godlike gnndenr of the occasion, has swopt tho strings of her acted harp, and aingtod the inusic of Leaven wth the Joyous songs of earth in ment light for boating them out, es Commerce ot this port is Ko depressed that the pitots of New York ina body petitioned th Com rate permit them to withdraw sven of their Loats from tho Sandy Mook sta tion, The Pilot Roerd have granted the request in ighton the ot the men, with | Bownns that the warrant had beon issued, | of pitots on and what amount of bail was required. A | 4uty fF the present, | whole reyiment of men, if it had Deen necos | Mere! Cele bexts lontend | sary, would havo voluntocrod to go ball for | of Nineteen in active service, Tt Is protmble that ry | | him ho could have gi Dail in any sumo | required in loss time than it took to drive to But no; that would not Ho must bo | Ludlow street j answer the purp: locked up, all ace the part of his fri se in view. and commut nd denied to hin eation on through the long watel fthe night. of th Like melted lava in his veins? do you want to se World introdue the oppre: 1 into this | an institution of New York? stand nineteen dollars an | not too clean, to tleep ina single | that he was unable to hire an | dollars to her know what had become of him The exereiee of an office in an oppressive manner is illegal as well os dctestable. ‘ro sooms to lave been no ground of ap prehension that Mr. Bownns would leay the city suddenly. why lis arrest should not have been ¢ lowing morning: as well as that night. ‘This isa tlagrant attempt to inte the freedom of the press, In these d pital exere for fi teetion of thelr rights but ina free press. Let them etand by it, and it will stand by | thei, hope and th as well as of political and religious lilerty, a An Ungratetal World, It} came}'s back, So says the old proverb, I camel's back, and that ingratitude ia not feathers, or we might bo suffering at thi monient a fracture of the spinal column, Wo hayo seen paraded over and ove again the boast of our ne'ghberthe We tircly through its influence, and in spite o! cluding Tue Sun in the noraber, and lis wife kept in a state of intense anxiety Can any American citizen read the account outrage and not feel the blood boil | Ts it as bi American citizens !--native or adopted— ns of the Old public? Is the | sponging houso of Great Britain to be made We under aat Mr. Bowhrs waa obliged to pay fifty cents for a room, ht, and ake a note to his sick wife, and let There was no reason fora with | a, when | such tremendous ing courts and legislatures—the people have no reliance Whatever for the pro- Tho independent press in the Iast | tim Col ily sure champion of personal tho last feather that breaks the is fortunate for us that our back is not a that Mr. HoryMan was malo Governor en- the opposition of numerous other papers, in- the Now Jersey Pilot Board will tuke action in regard to tho New Jersey pile shinilar Groner Peancis Titatn had better haste home, or he may find himself outdone in spr ang lawyer in Philadelphia, We for to Kicuaay Luvsow, Esquire, who opened for the proseention in the Hill murder case, “Tho crime of in ” suid Mr, Leptow, “How grown of late to an enormous siz Why didu't Mr, Lepzow tell ua just what alze? ch with a st or as big asamountain? Aud why is the erime of murder of any larger size than it used to be? On a quiet Sabbath evening,” continued Mr, Luprow, “in the heart of this city, Mra, Many Hit was sent into eternity, and her body was left behind, covered with its own blood.” We infer that Mr, Leptow considers that the size of the crime of murder wa enormous by leaving the b at into everuit render ly be more nd, and not counsel for uty he threw also. uce might plead in ext sont it as far as he rending the murder it out of the window, ‘The Philadelphia bar has long been eolebrated, Is it detorior 2 Itscems hi | ject aman toa trial for his ti | 8m opening wt tho sa | | rly faiv to subs , and to boar sueh —— Tt was cones at the two dinner at Delmonio | ing were the * | dent of ihe ome of the son Tuesday even- weches of Mr, Cuoate, the Prosis New England Society, and Judge Buavy, ident of the St, Patrick's Society, Mr, Coste eule d the Yankees, and Judge Beapx the Irish, At the close of a keen encoun. ter of their wits, which excited uproarious laughter aud applause, the old truce, after the the chief of the Wampanoags, and the founders of the Pil- , was renewed, whereby the sons of | St. Patrick were to continue to rule the city of Now Yorkagud the descendants of the Puritans were to be allowed (o eat their anniversary dine ners without m . | manner of that between Massasoil The anniversary of the separation of Por. t | tugal from the successful revolt of 1640 is the first of Decomber, It was celebrated this your in Portugal with unusual enthusiasm, as a manifestation of the popular repagnance to the scheme of Spanish annexation which is belloved to be especially cherished by Gen, Iam, It is T | evident that the Portuguese aro as unwilling to Lave Spain annexed to them as they are to be an- neacd to Sp f] White this ea t a ———— Khas been un series of earthquakes and vo rgoing ite ¢ eruptions, our being close some intere: watched, and we may ing revelath ‘The largest retail clothing tra Btates le way on expect in the United one by Duldwin, corner Canal and Broad: t the | | call this pletur | fretted with gold, There, wuier the pled and painted root ad dabbed with wilte rturet at last, im th 4 choir, surrounded by sacr thre nd stalls aed benches the pe vere gathere worship and the beautifal festival of | the birthday of Jesus Christ the Lord. That wone | drous orken carving, whieh saluted the eyos every where—the ttone, uph marsy palars and vast archce of ¢ ding the mighty dome, and aweeping | fvom end to end in the maguiiteence of their strenght and beauty on both sides of the enormona building | these were the materinis out of which to build up @ | sublime epic or waiving religion, And when the | priests knelt Lefore the Meb ultar, and the 6: gation bowed thelr faces, and the bright sunlight | streamed through the great pain window over | the alior, and reflected upon the colt marble floor, in colora of green and erimson and amber, the ple+ tures of the saints {a Its #torled panes; and when, to crown the glory and majesty of the scene, the mlchty organ, yearning ike a god to pain over some diving delivery of birth, began to #uell tte golden throat wi Dreathings, gradu full ie power, in vast throes wor 4 melody, it wlmost seemed th u were “uplift, and we L | th icmas of the anges be: throne of the Lord Who does not re universal Chris: tore? as we Toft the pheo, lay the effigies in bliek marble of the old abbots, and Liter Pshops and b tors of the ea who eneh In his thine had ec ] brated the ¢ festival ard regolelng sani chuveliy and here we are today to perpetuate tho Deantifu) ceremonial The early Christie were rure to observe Ch mas asa boly day ond tocelobrate It, not with lo and (rlumphant refoicines, but im scerecy, and with prayer, pro Jeong. Tt was to them a beautiful day in thelr creat love and fealty to the Lord ; full of myan’s best hopes, full of bis beet suretic secns rites, Butas soon as Christhunity became tneorpor rated with the civil power, as soon as it became @ cult with objective forms, with a mighty bicvarely and ceremoaial, with pageants and processiuns, th Christmas festival became the aujrene fart of Chured, Bat Christmas as we now have it, and as it hae deen kept in Europe for more than a thousand year was unknown to the early Church, and those of our readers Who are not overlrarned in ecclesiasticnd history will be agood deal confounded when they learn that nearly all the secular ceremonies which Delong to the fe art of Christmas are barbarous in their entire origin and history ; and that the beaus ty of the liltes of Christianity has alone softened and redeemed them in the high service to which they were put, The Nort ember all this as a part of the Ista n nations were @ wild, Imaginative people, dwellers minong the tains, and eon panions of the thander, the 1 0 hoi}, and the snow, Before their conversion to Christianity thoy lad created their own Olympus, thelr own gods, aud Weaven and hell, ‘They bud thelr festivals at he begloning of the year In honor of these gods; and toe carly Christians, Ondlig that It would Ble to break up this long-established framework of superstition, ineorporated it into the Christian cer montsl, or rather, perhaps, put the Clristion truth {nto those old Pagan symbole, The mighty was ing of auciont times, which belonged to Chrisimes, Was A part of tuo Worship of O.lin, the Jupiter of the Scandinavian mytholoxy, These Norsemen were the grandest drinkers that ever were known on mposs! ro $n the ulster, | 1868, died drinkers, and went to where the gods got drunk every day, and had to be corrected every now and then by Hiemdal, their Bt. Peter of the Celestial gate, So, instead of pledging Thor and Woden in their cups, they pledged Christ amd the Virgin Mary, and got drunk all the eame, whieh was the climax of their religion, The origin of our eating and drinking custome at Christinas, as Well as that of the Visiting, lies fur back in tho peri@l of Pagan idolatry, when thoy burned great fires on tho altars of their yous, and slew great nambers of oxen and shoep, which they ate to their honor. It ts curious to consider, as one sits by the blazing yule log on Christinas Eve, that pleasunt as the bright fire ts, and delightful ns are the off family ae- soelations connected with Mt, It Is after all an inters Joper into the Christian mysteries and festivities, ‘that for thousands of years before the Christian it was burned on the mountain tops in the sacred fires dedicated to Thor and Woden, More carious still, perhaps, Is the fact that the pale green mistic- too, with its viseld berries, under whieh oar yonng friend just from coll ge ia 80 devoutiy kissing the Young lady that shall be narnclew sacred plant of the immemorini Druids, which they cut from the ook with a golden knie and #0 much solemnity of preparation—eser white robes, and bearing Iver upon which alone the sacred plant must fall, and then be carried (o the adytum of the stone tempie in tl It ‘Wu @ modicinal plant, and there seems to hare beon tome Phailic quality attributed to it, Hence that fymbolical “kissing under tho mistletoe” which bad survived the ruin of that most ancient and veuer- able ardor of priesthood, ‘There is no douvt therefore that nearly all the customs connected with Christmas to-day were prac- tived by the Pagans long before the dawn of Chirie- tianity, a8 we said before, and It would be very in- teresting $f we had time to trace there custome through the middle ages, when they were in thelr Glory, and eashroaded with anperstitions, Durtog the absolute reign of Roman Catholie: fun tn Rarope @ vast number of there super: #litions prevailed over all theearth. Very priduaily, after the Heformation and the Printing Press, they began to lose thelr authority and power over the barman min ‘Bat until within the bit Atty years tn Fncland, the wasauil and the feast were in fuil biaxt In tie ereat halls of the nobles, oxen aud sheep, and Pigs and fowls of all sorie were slain and roxsted on ‘Cortstiows Day; and mighty dagons of ale were sent down the long Libles on railroad; said at these tables gat the lord, with tie tumity, frien md tenantry, Open house «as proclaimed indeed durlag the ent | festival; and there was siwaye t oer hour brought np and set in the m Je dining | table, rated with ever, as and ret holly ber- ries, and ewitaming im geavy, balf of which at} was a red wine, and aymbulical “at that’? Dorin « Larpers Would chant an anclent ditty of the Crosad 4, and the ¢: re & song of Herald Angels and the Birth of Christ, The present observance of Christmas ta England varles in character with the goograply of the people, Christman Eve is more of a Jolly time than Christm: Doy, For three weeks betore the festival, the wal and carol singers, and Sunday ehool children, go forth at night, and sing under tie windows of the townsmen or villagers; and very pleasant it is to be waked np by thom in a moony night, when te frost is on the pane, and the enows knee-deep on the roud, and listen to their rustle minstrelsy. On Christe mas Evo they come early in the evening to the houses, and. having #ung thetr tongs, knock at the doors for * Eyerhody Is 8 happy on that evening, that the minstrels are wore to be Invited into the we, where they are presented with the Wwaseail bowl, alarge lump of pluincake, anda eum of money. In the carly times of our history, when the gloomy Puritans ruled the colonies, and persecuted Roger Willams, they sot thelr faces Zionward, and could not look at a festival, ‘The Chilstuias ferst, of all others, was thetr ablorrence, It was compound ed, they aid, of Pagan mysteries and Clristhin truths, end the very misictoe had been worshipped by the Draide! How. then, dare a Christinn nuaiden allow hervelf to be kissed onder it? Nay, how dare eho submit to be kissed at all? Were not the Pagons ding r rs Jur, Who re ¥ of the vost property held by the Trinkly cor Alon, and #aldt to by Dut §200,0000, wae Jd at Oranee, New + yesterday aft te ‘There were delegates pi vin New York, Penns nia, Oblo, Michigan, and New Jersey, and few who were not delegates, the ahered over &) persona, Th gitea from New Jersey represented over of the claimants, The mecting was or. vy the election of D. T. Of Pailadeiphiay aa Chaleaan, as Sucretary, ver by the Ray, y. A printed. el fro, and dr. and war godt king, Quin e approval of W, wv not N work, and the di heirs Into their arro of Now York, devou Y Ae, und maid th Tea vary de at he wot | away Willa very bad, in courte Of conversatiun, caught hiwseli im several lies, The Cusirwan, Mr, Vinderieel need Mr, Brown as a traud, and that whil beon ‘living of of tue heirs tor the ' > years, he was at tho name thie Cuploy of the Trinity Corporatio Mr, Israel Brown eaid of Ub he understood Wxpose ‘0 devise plans for tkiog legal ste Hty in question [rou Thuity Church, he therefore moved thata C nutted of % be apootuted whose duty {t ah take Into, their echurge the interest Of the here of cute thelr clams fn the j that it shall be the duty of BW) men to wet us cuardians for the heirs it 'y State in the Union, without expe n case of and to institute legul proc «Alter discussions motion Was adopted by w Couvention elecicd as deiegates the following nawed gentlemen Wiilaw Jenkins, of Newark; Charles Quiudyy Ornnues Hellevilie, “Ne dst re} Bewjamiy "Os Shewroy’ Newark. dart ewark ; Ewa d il, Muuiphrey, Ohio g sony 8. As Larry, Di lst ware, Ohio ¢ Hamiitou Square, Nod Lede wan o. to, 1a #. Giitord, ‘Cana Con Mh « Muihp bey, ApYieeliy he Convention then took a recess, when the Committee organized by the vleciion ef the 1olio: atic President, Drs Parsonett ; Vice Presid Win, Jonkius ; decreiary, Law ard Courver ; Tre er, Isruct Bower. Upon the reassembling of te Convention Mr, Bower reported the orginiantion of the Coannittee, and would tke Ab on tieuselves on heli of the ‘heirs to proseente the ciaiin in We United States Supreme Court, at ther own risk, aud to recrive 10 per cert, only in cane of success, Tue proposition Was agreed tv, aud the Convention seon Alter adjourned, Boanp or Covxci.mey.—This body, at its sion yesterday, passed resolutions providing far vie opening of a number of strects, and one dirceting earth, They would never have turned Cliristians if they eoutd not haya perpetuated ther drinking cus + tows ‘They were bred and born aud they lived apd that a portrait of the Hon, Jobn T, Hofman be polnted and placed in the Governor's room, at an expense of not more than $1 000, ai Seataas bt RIVAL Setinedgde so endowed with lips # Lt was too shocking, But i they had to suceamb, The young people coutd not What traveller (ves not reme; . aueeuenieh ins i baargsten tances yt do without recreation, and they loved the festival of 7 mt Whe grand cia Galle Gaal vain Ciiriatmas above all others, So, at last, their religions Ing there 1a lw rich and florid arebitecture ike rulers gave them # Thonkagiving Day, und now we | fone great oratory with ite dark masses of muste, | arefree of Puritan rule wehave two mtlonalfetivale | fin bright trinseentent eotors, and flowing harmo: | "aN vo tnernees alwagn made Christmas a prent lens ne of sine temeie and gusting Muwers, eulleR” 1 Hoilday, for which the durltans snubbed tuem, teases | | and thelr euperstitions, however, by ha oh) | away forever—as it was right they » | Te siicnoo before th of ee gabe deed es : be shel dpicd ee { fut festival contd be offered by the han BP eUC Ae aah se Gadd ee eennaeevag | Roverence for a holy day, than this of C ristinas? | adds 3 betsy , | Allthe Jand rejo.ces,and alls and tacred | God, ‘Thon carne tha pagent o priests in their | oie are decorated bea natee| red and white robes, and ¢ Hine of choristers | Pee ae sietancae | and ihe symbol of 4. ALR then came the \ RSrEy RNG WHA, Hat and gratet bied moticy congregation, f the proud lady ba her | ean ert cs costly garmonts to & fim his rage mod thO | oiies y aan | throng of the holt antthe blind, Who docs uot ro» me I Celebrations, A number of school celebrations were held om Tuceday, all of which were of a very \nteresting character, The reception at Grammar School No. 55, L, I. Waters, Principal, took place in the morning. ‘This ts ono of the most popular departments in the city, and was attended by a large namber of visitors. The exercises wore vory fine, particularly the ing. Ing and the organ accompaniment of Mr. Robert {tue sehool. Tho compositions by rich, Williaa Nawmbers. ani € ‘ and the reading by Willism Thomps ell puted one and ne pupils who tad shown the nd Kelly medals were given to gt R. Vandi b other gent The commencement exercises of Mirist Grammar School No. 4% in West Twenty-e ghith street, were held at 11 o'clock. The Roy. Charles Wattehesd read the Seriptures, the Rev, Thonins Street gave an Address, and Assistint Superintendent Kiddie distrloe Ayplonvas and delivered an aid elise, A namber of compos P including a valedictory by Mire Annie welia Hill I¥ Principal of this ne nt. Thduatrlal School of the Children's Ald Soet- nated at 211 West Eighteenth street, brid « festival yesterday, About fifty-two children and were regaied with a poantiful dinner 1 with gilts, Addresses Wy Meters. Hrown, Gorley. and ether seliool bas been cetiblished about ten months flourishing condition. Tn- etvaetion ven fm the ruil nensary | Riirliah Branches, aimfie, and sewing. Mise A. k, Chan ter Jy Prineypal. and Mrs, Chitom volunteer’ assistant Charles L, Brace, Secretary of the Children's Aid Soclety, wax present during @ part of the exerctren, Receptions were also held at the Graham Industrial Kelool, at 54 West oath stecet, and nt the Lorimer Sehool'in the Chapel of the Crown of Life. The Oh mmar School No. 2, also sttuated tw ‘Weet 2th street, gave a reception at o'clock yer. terday, The Rey. A. B, Beach ofered prayer, and Goveriior eleet Hoflivan gave tho open alder In which he spoke of We excellence of the New Yo hools, i. tang! an were made gentlemen, Aselstant Su ret Cul Marry © Porroy, M Alary Taylor, Breakell, Kia A, Fineh, Mary &, Nicholson, and Remarks were rard god the Hon, ate Kt nboek. wards mate by James W. Gee tin I, Realy. ‘Tho nunver of visivors at this school was aanen- ally large, and the exercise were of @ very MUpCriOR character, especially the dramatic porform singing, tinting class, whieh numbered Thost of t MeCarthy, Kehool Ni Sety dine musical HL. Tooke ing whom Opp were Alte . and othere. Addresnc ¥ kivcker jan Tescy. a newly Trustee, Joseph F. Eilery, femio department ot Grammar School No. Sb is under the supervision of Miss Harriet Goldey, who bear an enviable reputation asa prineipal, and the e Of yester 'f concert reflects much credit on ber, er aesustaut tecekers, and the pupils, inten ‘The Alleged Castom Honse Fra Uxirep Starcs Commissronna’s Orrice—2 ronr Commissionzm Oxnonx.—The United Star agt. Sigmund end Simon Gutterman. The examina tion in this ease was to have taken place yesterday, Mr. igiamand Kaufman, eounsel for the defend- ants, stated tat In consequence of a1 arrangement entered into with the defendants they could not be resent, He (Mr, Kaufman), however, appeared ele behalf to atate the cuue of thelt nom-appen he t Wat they would be the Court might nuw name for . E Burrill, also counsel for the defendants, appeired and applied to Mr. Ethan Allen, Deputy S. District Attoricy, to waive is claim to a to felture of tho recogutzanee und Mr. Ethan Aiden explained that te reco, would be formally forveted, but the parties to It Would not necessarily be procecdad azuinst If they came forward and submitted to their examination, and that ona day to be fixed by the C Dut that he should move, avd did now move, for the absointe forfeiture of the bond to save the rabies of the Government on the bond, ‘Phe Commissioner made the followlog order on the records of tue Court: The United St dant, Simo9 Gath veney tie ase iponed uni ape ment wit the w aeteed nn Was ‘ee Wie room tM Iie money aw er Witiess saw ¢ ty «idl 4 avail | vitted tle clay Lanchlin wank ut tmitted the OL Age, Wark yesterday ait of €1,000 butly to iy entering the room ng her abe etound Hennessey In the room, wi Le then made N48 escape with some property that he Lad woken, Lut was subecquently arrested. He maya that th ter... Bhan Kelly wor locked W ache T been conatlit in the act of steals hav wae ¢ $40 in bills f ett, BOR G: given es Mi y Were locked up at the Tombs nin the act of at the store of Deby Worth street. Henry Meyer, Albert Meyer, and George Riekett, alleged «opti were ted by Detective Fibhts of the net, and locked up at the Ty Jstrect Potiee Staton, charged with | having stilon on the Ht instant at the tore of C, F. Dermbnvin & Co. in Walker strect, a piece of satin, Voited at $20. They were viso senlined as the seven pieces ot satin, vulited at store of PH. Strange & Co.. in Walker Mr. Brown | Of Other laree: hi, the owner of a Was arraigned York vile Court, ut 1 Geer e duckson, this place, The des Ke OL Violating the charged with a Conrad € Police Trints Yesterda The regular weebly trials of diretiet police offi. held yesterday at Poitce Heauguarters, wor Manulere presi r Doran rae actin me ity rellay ate ut i not inake a erty at the thom hens ‘Umer wal on {0k ght agalast Dor: chage Lore a strong resewblance to a revaliaion, especialy o4 It was proven the umbrella wus joa reserved....Henry C. Foster, a 4 Ofiecr Kenny with calling lam bin, From the evidence It ny had hereiofore had his expense; but When Would app * drinke the latter y more ‘Viquor the oMcer coustaniy annoyed bin, sad om the oceasion mentioned Ureatened to charye dm with sclling liquor toa drunken man, The officer's nce WAS very lame, tending more to minate than others wine... Joseph Nichols charsed Officer O'Niel with ca ling hie a dirty loafer, and using other offensive cpithels, without provocation, The charge was cone fimd by evidence, although denied by the officer, De ryed.... The case of Win, J.C, Meighan, New York dicrald, against Detective Crowley, ‘Tweutyeninth Vree net, charged with mistakt ing him tor & pickpocket and ordering him off a Broadway journed for one week, on ace count of the duscnce of the complainant from the eily, The remsduder of the cuscs Were of minor hnporianee, end Exta ate market was quiet yesterday, The real There Wos nly d sale Je unsold,” Al- tow, they Were it Will be 4 ‘of New sporty disposed of yesterday oy inted of pizualacs tu Cherry street, Ux TR. BS, AUK uctory to th tie last eale dersey. dhe Mr, bi Chere, The sensation of the hour among amateurs of {lls popular sume, is the mateh between Capt, Mac- kendle and Mr. C,H, Stanley, now in course of pliy At the Maltby Houwe, Great Jones street, OF the three mpostg thin encounter, two have already red, having been played on Monday and ast evening, with »renull of a gume won by each, |The rdw gaune will Le contested o next ot P.M, io eey @ sale ab the mart, 1A Broaiway, aT SUNBEAMS. —— The jail in Patnam county, Ohio, has had no tnmates for six months, —Beavers are cauzht in great numbers on thé Tallahatehie river, Misiesippl. =The Louisville Courier-Journal calls cold) blooded murders ta Kentucky “ unhappy eéfaars.” —Mr. Reverdy Johnson recently “declined ax snvitation to a dinner in London. Vordi is said to be at work ona “fameo and Tobet." Tt le to be given at St. Petersburg ta thé season of 1569-40, with Mme. Patt. =—Mr. E. B, Carpenter is painting a portrait of Horace Greeley, as le appears in the editorial roomy for the Tribune Association, =Mr, Alexwlder H, Stephens is reported to have received an offer of twenty-five thousand dollard for the first volume of his * War among the Statea,’* -=A provincial paper in England speaks of New York City as 8 tation on (ho notorious Erie Rail+ way. — The fruit crop of the Bahamas is very abnn« dant this year, bat as there is no demand for it for r t which an instrament by Stradivarinn was sold for $450, Bergonai for @140, and others at equally moderate prices. —Gen. McClellan has declined the Presidency of the University of California, It t# said that ho how holds positions which give him from $15,000 to $14,000 a year, —It is said that President Bergh awards the palm to Mr. Booner, as the most dexterous and hae mane horseman {n the country, from the fuct that his trotters are never beate: —The latest style of pantaloons (trowsers, it should be,) has a email pocket back of the right side, called the Derringer pocket. Thrice is he armed wha bath bis quarrel just—and carries three revolvers, —Josh Billings recently wrote toa lecture coms mittee that the price of one of his lectures was $00.40 ¢ that he had in some instances been carcless enough to throw off the 400, but the 40 cents he must have to maintain is reputadion, —The Lighthouse Board have contracted for @ new lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, in place of the pres sent structure, ‘The tower will be 01 granite, 19) feet high, oF taller thon any other lighthouse in the world, =In order to bo presentable at Com; Jady witht a perma velvet wpend les than @ visit. iégne @ of elegant Qnery, euch aw it —In bottling mead for wedding parties, cara should be taken to have it properly seared, or it may produce an unpleasant popping. Stould tt be allowed to come in contact with the aparkiing #plrié from Vincland an explvsion will be pretty sure to follow, —The wife of Capt. Henry C, Dean, one of tha oldest resideata of Oxfor Vand a few nights since, saying that she weard some one knocking. He arose, but could find no one, and coming back to the bed he found her lying dead, —Keferring to the recent numerous deaths of eminent persons, the Purts Chartvort, in a family scene, gives an excellent caricature; Wite, fondly embractag her husband, * And all those great talente Jeaving os! What a blessing, my dear, that you ‘were never more than a nullity." —Queen Isabella went to the operain Paris, lately, and eat inthe Imperial box, She was received with absolute silence, but soon after there was.a buze of curtosity to xe the dethroned queen, There w: no cheering from any part of the house, and when she retired the stillness was as marked as whea she entered, —The English army consists at present of 177,000 men, OF the troops, 70,202 are garrisoned Ia England, Ircland, Scotland, and Wales ; 9,187 at Obs ralter and Malta; 69,000 In In 000 in British America, and the remainder at Derimuda, West Indies, Cluna, Japan and other places, = It has been discovered, ofier a cert tleo of the P eace in Baldwin county, Al ried several partios, that he was never quallfl work of reconstruction Is therefore pro; fore a genuine justice, and it is spoken o yet availed himself of the loape wed to be aiforded by the law, he population of Minaesota, it is asserte Now amounts 0 420,000 souls, an luercase of 70 ps cont. ia throe years upoa the State census of 18685. ‘This would give au increase of ‘D per cent. every year upon the population of the precedling Year, and At percent, at te eud of two yons, AB this rate Minnesota, it is estimated, will popes Lition of 600,000 in 1570, whew the neat United ato coms is bak fifleen years ago Mile Morsilio Rov 6 and Brilliant pianist, suddenly dieapperred mm Pavia, Te was at Oret was mad) eat, Jeath waa duly annon Just . hur hberty, alter fo nha house for the Hieane, where . wider tha name of Josephine Chevaiter, Tae Joyraal des Dibate Anuonnces that this mysterious atta will speedily conte before the eriginal hi writs —" Aunty,” said a se 1 niece toa bee reaved whlow, “now you re prosperous and * well (0 do,! let us get aome pretty tombstones for ood Uae le Daniel; you know be hes none at his grave." Aunt Keziah lificd up her hands, and emohusixed this touching expression: “dan itt thing of Dantel at the Judement, t without a guide-boa time." —A Paris correspondent write: mine here has a servant wh Will not let his mastey for dinner, cy want anye can Gnd him Lich you he'll be there im “A friend of ach a eerow? that ha Leater—have enough the bones? he he careass of aleparte him a treasure,’ Latde said my frlend, *he's a bore, T can get nothe ing. He gives me one potato; and he Is so horribly mean that he will not even Anock at the door—he em Shi Tmuke a plut of asked to-day, mourning o¥ key. ‘You must acting the attention of iste, It ts alrerdy mised In and will probably be introduced into other It is reported (o be superior to ty for poor soli or uplands, ext/lvilng astrong healthy growth, Ling | Ite strength {# equal to a 8 en to euch th cady lar thread of the Arneriean cott ta welght of only Me Peypthan colton, ) one-fourth more than ean, =The November tr the great London books Anuiversary of the “Ll having paste? sinee t tablisicd himoaelf fu Fle lng afterward ovcuy anor of John Murr, dvedth iveay,” a century. Jolin Murray ee jn the builds in Abou where lis grandson still resides and ea: ness, Mr, Murray said, in a bricl speech, that he hoped svon to tutroduce to the trade a fourth Joho Murray, bis son, now a youth, who he hoped would keep up the house for many years to come, —The population of Turkey is estimated of 40,000,000, Her army numbers a total of nearly ar army 18 composed of 154,400 men, The reserve army amounts to 20,000; tha ausiliary troops to 190,000; the Irregular troops ta 90,000, ‘The resources of Grecee when compored with those of ‘Turkey as#ume insignificant propor tions, She has # population of 1,500,000, and hor maximum army numbers about 12,000 men, with at least 2,000 ofleers. ‘Turkey has « good navy, not Im numbers, but in strength and efficiency. bas two stcomers anda squadron of costing ship —From the records of the Internal Revew Bureau, it appears that the present tax of 50 ceute per gallon on whiskey is productive of newly douvle the amount of revenue by the old tax of $2 fl ion, The following As four months tn 195) the high tax: July, ¢1,05147.03; Aue + Septem 10.31 ; Octobe total, € 46, ‘The following is 10F the corresponding months of 186%, under the 50 cent tart July, #1108 000.11; August, & Septem. A998; October, ¥ tolah, The total receipts du: . Atte gust, September, and October, 1907, from all sourcen periaining to the manufieture and gale of disti splilts, as reported to the oftce of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, were §0,725,205,27; during the year 1968, from the same sources, they were $11,184» 878.56, OF this amount, $7,154,017.22 was collcered anon spirits manvirrtured prior to July 20, 1868 4 on Duste