The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 5, 1869, Page 2

——— ( | AMUSEMENTS, ———— SFALLACK'R—Lord Ly tton's comedy of Mone COOPER INSTITUTE, Jan 6.—Lecture by John Ay Gough. BTRINWAY MALL, Jan, 4 and S-Ote Bull's Grand Con corte, BTRINWAY HALL, Jan: —Parepa ty TAMMANY—Jan. & Light Rorteeqno, Comety, ant Fxtravaganzn, | of these t cheaply, oMeiently, and profitably ; but they are also men of imajrination, and may make great mistakes, They are trying a vast ex. periment, which iti f our business to we, but we forr that the combination Drokondown lines, taken to gether with the retention of a gauge which nor liseon QINEATRE FRANCATS-Qenevines de Hrvteot cannot be mate to y except under the most STOOD'S MUSE ITM-Fenant: oF. The torn of a Mitton. | key: Rtheatiiat will lurdly & ma, Living and Wild Anirats, . " ENEDECOR'S ART GALLERY, 403 Proady ata. | it to the parties concerned pont Y THPATHE. Fightion 1 ° Mr. Jonches's Civul Service Bil. once canes atihain Wikiijols ; are now in the civil service of th EW yore crmers. 7 United States 60,000 officials, every one of coe erat a hages t 1 ornt hk valle, with the it Grand Concest ima new Adu tration, Frain COOPER INSTITUTR=George Francis Train's Pecen | t » postmaster or enetomn | ~~ : lu themembersof the Cabinet, | is % | t one of our oMecholdera te sure of 1 position for more than four yenra, if he in as long as that, Besides, the appointments to thease plreos are notor! ly mece, not with peur to fitness, Dut eolely as rewards for | political services, ‘The question asited con corning each applicant ian How well will | . se m the wos eeted of him? bat e cy iy. | has he don the good of the par ria o | And whon ho a to be dism in fate | ; iv decided on the some principle. Hence, w ‘tite | love everywhere incompetency, dishonesty, | ed th {2 | and corroption in the poblie departments, | {a on ig nothing like ag well served | Charles Sumner and Reverty Johneon | Ahad eas debs Halhieal | . JENCKES, member of Congress from Wien it was proposed e aautinengo to place | Rhode Ietand, has now before the Honse a bill Paintings Iustrative of somo of tho g ww | des'gned to abate, in some measure, the evil battles in the late war in the Capitol, objen. | WO Deak of He does not propose to inter. ton was mnde, If wo recollect rielitly, by the | fo With the appointment of o whom | Alot. Cuanuns Svusnn, on tl : the Constitutie . requires to be appointed by Ht was undesivable io prowrve money | tho President +4 con Vt FOnes,.| lackdonte occurring in acivil war, nod | bOF With that 8 Bnd Guatont | ther the tall traces of this torrible cone | BOW officers, in with tho | flog betwoen vremnren Of the wne (100 or 24,000 other officials, such aw thove Gane Blot Gat the Better, We hav the Sulernal revenue, and the various Qreerstood Mr. Ink toargue t RU «heads of depnrimenta, | Ww! soneither side fomnented the controversy he i eee wh ch led to the ecially the advo. | cates of froedom—should be forgotten; but | valy that the vulgar geldiora, who, instead of | merely talking in snpport of Liberty aud Union, fought and bled and died inthe noble satise, should not live again on canvas, re- Vivified and preserved for ages by the art of the painter, It was thought that such paint: Inve might in time, after the restoration of the Union, be hatefal to the sight of our re- *onstructed Southern brethren, ' seemed to us at the time that a cause worth fighting and dying for was worth com awiaorating; and woe ehould have deem Mr Searmun’s vi lly t not to gay soulless, if toy Hhoae of a groat advocate of human rights. We aro unable to perceive any ditlerones in principle between the Me. SUMNER in the Ben as We Mt and that recently taken by JOUNSON, Our Minister to En correspondence w ware ne and nar roy sition arsamed by Revewpy | nd, in his | th Mr. Lain, The doe: | trine of both, if wo understand it, is that the Inte unpleasantness was only a funily jar, all retiniseon f whieh ore t ciew Vo cannot eo why, if Mr { 1 the her Unie ot to brethren, why should net ‘ana brother Lamp dine heats’ content? Tf this view is correct—and it seems to he reasonable—Mr. Jomnson and Mr. Sumyen appear to have as strong a connecting bond as the Siameso twins, And if President GRANT appoints CUANLES BUMNEK Scere brother JOUNSON | to thor tary of State, why should he not continur Reverpy Jorxsos M the Court of Bt, Innos's ? Inn Matlway Updertakis | B® the BK ‘ynils we mpleted ther rrang aon for biond gauge connections with both § Louis and Chicago. ‘lo Cincinnati they will operate the Atlantic and Great Western, which they have leased, and thence to St. Louis they have made a partnership arrango- ment with the old Ohio and Mississippi, 80 that its proposed change of gauge will be stopped, and it will be run on joint account with the Erie. ‘The conncetion with Chicago 1s to be made through the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central line, which orosses the Atlantic and Great Western at Urbana, The various roads leased of this company are 715 miles long. One of them, extending to Indianapo- lis, 18 #80 to be laid with a broad gauge. and it is rumored that tho Erle yoy iy de gaining for one of ‘ine reach westward frei thut c At i ie also a report that thoy ure neyortatis ad not been | § | patlea. | United States Senator from this Stato, a lot- | ter on the sut vt from among can: | n pasa a certain xamination fitness, and he would have for capacity on every person now in office, after put in office, liable to undergo asimilar examination whenever it should be thought necessnry, and gemoved if he should foil to show himself fitted for his p Good behavior alone is not to be ruffieient ; thero must be, also, the ability to discharge the duties required, So long, however, at the incumbent conducts himself faitht ond usefully, Mr. Jexckes would not have iim distur or hero. a | It Is not to be expected that the passage of ch a bill would at w once Dring about th mienian in our ni al adtaira, Wy nature is wea Limperiect, and under the t rigid supervision we c pe being saddled with roy Bots n@ is better than mw oll our subordinate oifle nnot entirely king sdepencent upon | the result of every Presidential election, and thus compelling them to pay ns much or more attention to politics than to theirdutios, THE SUN, TURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1869, a ee ee a - rigidly keeping the amount of circulation just where it ia, with a slight annual conteac- tion of $10,000,000, to be judicionely made at seasons of the year when it will occasion no Inconvenience, and with a reserve of $50,- 000,000 placed in the hands of the Secretary of.the Treasury, to be ned on occasions of letting the country grow te. Our Greulation ia now a of what it should be, Bight 3 ail over 40 per cout. to our »pulation, and nearly 60 per cent, to oar The withdrawal ef $90,000,000 a,and the wearing out of $10, 10 more, would bring: our circulation » to $554,000,000, while the increase of e othe vast, Ta parte of Germa m n and commerce would require | two or + trate establishments bad bean | ‘ 1,000, vo hat then we should be with. | fondet for the purpose es tin Ma 2. . 1 aniston ae Peforiving young criminals. and aaving sbandoned in our limit, and resumption would be enay | Mnf rans cme 1 lato wided they enough. wore vertatn to fail If left mnprotected. Aa to tho mischicfs ocenstoned by our | It was the Society of Friends tn thie y () present ready t currency, Mr, Orpyxy; | Wkewlse, who were he frat to more in the attempt | 10 mittente the ecveritioa of the criminal faw, aud to thinka they are greatly overeatimatud. The | '" c a sil follies i jis = | first eflict of in yo has long since boen x- | gathering which We have mentioned tooh place at | perieneed, but if it be now firmly arrested | the howe of Dr.tohn ¢ ed ina | and held whoerto it ts, no further evil can pos. | large meeting of infuentiat ms, . ‘d Uy result. Business hes adjusted {teelf to | titeclses Nn 8 fer ld ha echt the new order of things, and if nothing more eee eee ene yy the ollienre cf the Bo | ie attempted to dietarh it, it will go ona | ejety, and mide the baste of carefully prepared ree well oa it could under any circumstances, porta, many of eth vn, both here | These views Mr. OvpyiKn illustrates and | 804 in kuroro, by the thorongtinoss wit whieh they i ca iaNtaakdiaceal | treated the confirms with an abundance of facta end | Ay ine invastigitionn procended, the attention of | much engent ar Hinlettor, wo hear, | (he Society war more and tore drawn to the pro- w Boon Le publ 1 in pamphlet form, | priety of bextening by the reformation of yonthil and we commend it tothe enarncet considera | erimin me of @ mature age were 1 'y 80 Narr: hardened that (hers seemed Nitle prospect of a per- n of tho publi, manent improvement; bat the treeta of the city 1 reeent: imprisonment of Commodore | were Mited with young —vagnbonds, grow. Mespe ona charge oflusncy has excited a deep | 1M Op ar beat they might, in the midat | focling ia the community, On Saturday evening | OFthe West enrronndings, and making tit earitest faethe a ware haat , wands of Sipport tn thieving and the tke, | : chaotic aba dane Abadi IR Peat YG thoy were there throwa !1t0 | His urpone:O tins | company with the mont evil characters, and # Iearne | fluences Logislnture t t the require | ed onty to b ort refi t 4 were attended by rions had thie become th: men of char Linduence, whose nares will | ntenelag young oftend bv wher The object is to amend the and they wore often excused for the first § Lition soas to have criminal judges appointed by the Go with the coasent of | Doth the A ably a Tho World yoports yas enying oF Tie Son is susceptible to flat. tery, If Gen, Graxt ever said such thing, ho expressed an opinion without w basis to go upon. If the General ix interested to test the question, We can give him @ hint to start with, ‘The editor of Tue Sow bore his eppointinent by Abnatam Lixcons as Assistant Secretary of War With entire equanimity, and voluntarily resigned the place a4 soon as possthle after the war was over, Gon, Grant will therefore perceive that it oan to try to flutter as, except by the offer of some higher position than that If we ever did fect pr at tho fortunate opportunit h our official Ported us to trumental in ret tiv n is us ud of enything, it wae wh rlant junctu ty tu call the grea seombly meets hundrod trate Importont | and interests of | 4. The eight-hour iro a full share of ably be repre ting the + workingmen are to be disc unions will p eal haeasures aft and conspiracy laws will re n , 08 soon as honest, respectable men, | Mtlention, and tha question of the employment of V4 Poutscians, can bo assured that if they | Site eouvict labor will undoubtedly be fully de- Will prepare themselves for the public ger. | baled The Comventio pee raped y are likely to get appointments, | j....1 «a movement toward the formas 4 appointed, to keep their placcs oa of a workinemen’s politieal party will be Jos hoy faithfully and hon: et 40 thett | nade, Me, Wisssae J, Susser, of this city, is Sesathiadenl | atte ervate tho charac. | tho President of the Assembly. ‘ ter of applicants for situations, and give us —— the pick of the best instead of the worst ma. torial, Asa measure, therefore, tending both | to provent the evils under which wo now sutivr, and to give us something positively good, itisto be hoped that Mr, Jz bill may become a Inw. —— Mr. Opdyke on the Currency. Mr. Gronor Orpyke, of this city, has written to the Hon, Roscoe Conkiina, ct of the national curreney and the resumption of apecte payments, which 2e crowded state of our columns compels us ) to omit publishing in full. ‘The views ox- preased in thisdocument are, nevertheloss, ox accountof Mr, Orpykn’s great financial repu- tation, and the fact that he is ono of the possible nominees from this State for the placo of Secretary of the Treasury under President Grav, as well as for their intrin- sic force and interest, of sufficient import ance to be laid in a condensed form before our readers, Gen, Adam Banna, Military Secretary to Gen, Gant, was in town yesterday, and a upon Mr, Gras Tribune oftice, The in terviow waa of considerable duration, and, of cours — The lenders of the Cuban insurrection de clave that they could not be conquered by Spain if perfeot tr prevailed in the | mother country, and that under the present cir cumst the, pt of final success, They prove their proposition by refercnes to the insurrection in St, Domingo in 1808 and 1864, Then the Spaniards had Cuba and Porto Ric bases of op even qqaittit have no ¢ as nd yet they were forced to yield to the Dominicans at last, and to retire from the island. The climate was one of the chicf sources of Spanish wenkuess in that contes foldiers coming from Spain perished rapi fever; and the Cubans count upon the help o! the same ally, ‘Thore can be no question that if a large pro- portion of the people of Cuba really and carnost- ly wish to be free, they will become so, The magnitude and persistency of the present insur- rection demonstrate in them an intensity of pur- Mr. Orpyin opposes alike the attempt to |!" salty ney ay wefors Ap vee rine fmmodl.' ely raume wpecle po Tea this fare i lag ee - policy of inflaion He would he 8) and Ht (hey cuccoed thor inerems: of paper vp oney, t the ‘ yasnte mouths louger, they trivilon of ty 1 nate Be wure to cot pleviy f hetp dutn ebyomd aia Ub ALK we | Among the py souers lately browght to Marana $30,000 5 joined with | from the Eastern Department was @ young man A Pall of our population and | who bad received seventeen distinct bayonet th cle standard, In of mas nka, , would In eight yeors, he bring our currency up toa § and render ¥ and sale, | ption easy other words, he ad terly inactivit ad 8 a polic leaving to the growth a " t tend pri Gye Yoogth, in order tv 2 a connection vith che eastera teruinus of the Union Pacifie, Whether these rumors nro true or not we eannot tell, but they are probat There is an audacity and magnificence about them which agreo well with the character and Labits of the gentlemen to whom these plans Bre attributed. But however that may be, | we have in the Erie, Atlantic and Great | Western, Ohio and M #\ppi, and Colun bus, Chicago end Indiana Central, an aggre gate already provided of 2,117 miles of bre gauge railway to be operated substart Wf not actually, under one single mar ment. Is this grat consolidation likely be successful and to make money ¥ Asa general principle, it may be taken to be proved that a railroad of a six-foot guy tannot compete with one of four feet e'y _Jour feet ten, or five fect, The additional sxpenso of providing broad locomotives and ears, the greater consumption of fucl and labor, and the greater wear and tear are not pompensated by increased carrying eapacity. The broad gauge road costes more to build and to uperate ian one of narrow gauge, while its gross earnings are no greater. This is the law, and experience demonstrates Ite fatal power, The Ohio and Mississippi has never paid a dividend; the utmost #kill and economy have been applied in its man- agement, but they could not eave it, The Atlantic and Great Western has just been in the hands of a receiver. The Erie has been bankrupt once or twice, and if its broad gauge is retained, there is great danger that Mt may be bankrupt again, We know very ‘well that the control of the Erie is now in the hands of men of extraordinary practical bility who know how to run railroads | depontie, of $17 te ea. pment of the country the tosk of ex ting us out of our present dMeulties, What he says may be briefly sume follows: Our present currency is too redun dant to admit of the early « sumption of specie payments. dup as imme We have to aslve of banks population ; merchants | Ltednesa | inte re- | day a cire ng me m, wl of the while these deposits, being used b: Jin tho Hquidation of their | to one ancther, do practically form part of tho elrewlation asd ewell The proper Linit ofa sound currency iv not be- yond $10 to cach person of the population, as is proved by statisties, Whenever this limit has been excveded heretofore in our history, it has been productive of inflation and eulse quent financial disnate depreciation of tho eurreney. In 1 @ population of 83,000,000, we had $20 000 of paper moncy and about $70,000,000 coin; Whereas now, witha population of; 000,000, we haye— nbacks ex in its volume. Na Hank notes Fractional currency Couto Calorn a and Tey Coin used vy merchants aud Uie Ui lted Staicd Total a Tener) without first reducing this swollen amount to the limit, say, of $580,000,000, would be futile, The Bank of Fngland tried the ox periment under similar circumstances in 1817, and had to give it up in less than a week, a special act of Parliament being hur: ried through to enable it to doso, But if, again, the necessary contraction were to be made at once, it would lead to widespread disaster and financial ruin, ‘There then remains only the alternative of | wounds, one cut froma sabro, and one w | froma and it now leads tothe | ith | payments | sket ball, None of his injuric mortal, however, and he was sent to the i to be cnred, 0 that he can be tried by a. martial, Ho will doubtless be people thet not be despi spite sure couted, but a an furnish seh fighting material can- a1 as effeminate, — as The Report of Comptroller Cox nhst SOLLY, an ct of which is published elsewhere, shows hat during the two ye of bis administration sinking fund $5,000,000, —— - The World has a long account of a pres tended conversation with Gen, Grant, in which tho General is reported as saying many things which it is evident he never seid at all, and | soine which he might have said, and very probas Ily hay sid at some time or other, Among the lation ure the following remarks about one of the stand best men in the country : J fecl the same delicacy im talking of Rawtine fiat Lwonld it he were my own brother, There is he has increased the city non Twas ever assoelated to whom T saxtohim, He of intellect, The ntry does not know its obligations to hi nis integrity, His gaseiish pairiotisim, Mis antire energy, b wonderiul a Ny, to elreum: mW Judeinen is factilty of art Of war, I known to tho only fo ask any of my snbordi- ow what a debt of gnititute the He came to me in the fall vigor Te bas be an invalid ever since wan. Mis bealth is improving, and. rag ave the lest opyortunity (OF the op ment of bis rare pow ie {8 equal to the es of any position witvin the gitt of a President, T should eheerfully oter him a place in my Cabinet, Vit RawLins is poor, very At the si Without aby pers nal extraviage liberal views, It is impossible fi to Hive tna style becoming his posit! sultry, For this reason, if for no other, I think Raw tins would accept a Cabinet appolutin There i# no man better fitted for it, More acceptable to me,” ‘This is all true as a matter of fact, and we have } no doubt that it expresses the feelings of Gen, Guaxt upon the subject, et -n Turoutayt Sate or Ur-Tows Property.—Tho two blocks bounded by Sixty-third and Sixty-ffth streets, and Ninth and ‘Tenth avennes, has been transferred to Messre, Brown, Brothers & Co., vuntry owes Min of robdet he lth, the itr de er ent not y ¥ who would Le for $900,000," ‘The property fronts on tha ne Hevard and wae pi hae d ay an {nvestment, intention of the purchasers soon to cover the ate wilh dwellings of the Guat class, AOME NEW DOOR! ee It is now more than fifty years since @ smal! number of bénevolent men, informally assembled tn this city to consider the adoption of moaenres for the prevention of panperism, began a series of in- vestigations which ended In the lshment of the New York House of Refnge, the history of which 1s detatiod in A Milf Century with Juvenile Letine quent, by BK, Vrince, D. D. (Apfiipton & Co.) Vor some time previous tha attontion of pli'la ple neople, beth here and abrom!, had heen rronsed to the wretehed condition of mp A eriminata, fe treated with shook In Fnpland particul foriety of Prien ad devo one end exert Jo inmates a who wore manity and indi aad especially st had been mony thine and tab theinectves to retorn at that th rence, nlite on only that they might he raved from the ia- | evitable ruin whieh awetted thein If condemned Yet, when th d,the result was almost equally diee the Impanity with which they ¢ only induced them to revex their m i at the earitest opportunity. was on evident necasmty for some special establis ment to which much ehitdien could be they should be removed from all contaminating tne fluences, and as far as possible trained to habite of honesty and industry, thas meeting crime at the be- einntog, and contending with it at tho on!y point ‘Where there was ground for hope that it might be overcom It became the practical object of the Society for the Prevention of Panperism to secure a Horse of | Refase, to which children sentenced to lmprivon- met Plight offences might be wont, there tobe | eduesied, taught to work, and deteined until they | env e futhe betory evidence of reformat ‘The por. of Abe ina was afterwards enlored +0 rition were enublod to end ution Ao proper wath i vagrant puted, Wwe lishment shontd he expe for young nv diseharged from order to aord theta a tw porary Lome and oct tion, ond so prevent thelr being foreed back to thelr A habits by want, But tals purpose was gradually | Jost in pretence of the more urgent need for #® rate place of im Owed wig seneas entirely aban co The ny With many wiee practical suge | Kestions for carrying them nto effect, were act | forth by Dr, Griscom at a meeting of the Suetety for | the Prevention of Pauperiam, and ably: supported by | many eminent men who Wad become Intoreste’ In | the project, ‘The Society was transformed Into an Institution for the Reformation of Juvenile Delin- quents, and antil an net of Incorporation eval be obtained from the Legislatare, a temporary Board « Managers wan elected, who made a public appeal to | the charity of the community, ‘Tho frat House of | Refuge was built on land grantea by the city on the | Fpace now occupied by Madison Pork, and was at | that time situated In the couniry, On che frst of Janunry, 18%, the builling was regularly © with almplo services in the presence of the gore and a lorge assembly of citizens, Six girla and three boss had been broaght in by the pol were there to repree it the future Soin years passed on the Inhabitants of the inst creased in number beyond the accommotavions Which had been provided for tha and the cl extending further up town, surrounded spot, It becama necessary to remove the establis nient to some place beyond the limits of the advans- ing mass of buildings, and the locality fluslly ecteeted Was that occupied by the Bellevue Fever Hospital, between Twenty-third ard Twenty-fourth atrovts, opening on the river, Yet this position also w found alter tome thine to be too cramped; and alter much discussion, the southern part of Ravdoll's Ls Jond was purchased and the corner-#tone of the pre- sent House of Refuge laid in 1552, ‘The inatitution now comprises two establisimenta, ono for boya and one for girls, sepayatcd by high en- closures, ‘The rules governing the care of the ehil- dren are such as have been dictated and tes-ed by a long course of practteal erperte ‘are extreme The object ta to ohvltren @ plata nvicte W neinomt bee at d, education, to toaels tem sume or. .jation which will | enable tuem to carn thelr ow yond to stimu- tate and Ftrengtives, Lhe Woes to bre rye then aluat fw to wrong- tng. In eco hin agents are found to be religion ant hard w ‘The arousing of the religious son'inent oiten altern the entire character of the eluid, and proves of most enduring benefit, while labor has beeu found to be almost udispensable to tinprovement, Accompany: tng the habite of dishonesty into which they have fallen ty | physi vo most useful ‘atest obstacles | to reform Ivis peculiarly diMeult to Ox or tain their attention, and the only way to reduce th minds or bodies toa healthy condiiion is} arouse the mind, and in it the m: part of the education Is thus missed, ‘Ty Is #0 are ranged that steaiy application to the task secures @ shorter period of labor, and regular good conduct ts followed by a discharge at the end of a certain pe- riod. Where the parents prove their ability to take care of their children, they are retu ut In other cases the House assumes the 1 ity of bind ing them out as approntict ing them other sultable employment, Av present the Refge contatus avont » thousand Inhabitants, and tho average time spent there by each child Is @ little under two years, ‘The record, which tw kept as minutely as possible, of the earcer of each inmate after having left the Refuge, shows that an average Of seventy-five per cent. lead an honest and useful life, while many attain to exceptional emi. hence, The institution is controlled by the Board of Managers, who receive no pay for their services, and are elected annually by the Society. Tt ts thus en- tirely free from all political Influences, The expens: ined by the State, and by the labor of the which furnishes @fly per ceat, of tho neccs- sary outlay, ie In recording the history of this tnatitution, from tte earliest beginning to the present time, Dr, Peirce has taken the opportunity to give a brief aud interesting sketch of similar establishments both in this country and in Europe, While many of them have proved Very successful, they are in most cases reculated by a Peculiar or complicated system of government, mak- ing their success entirely dependent upon the person al character and ability of the superintendent, On thts account they do not offer an improvement upon the system adopted in this city, where the simplicity ofthe regulations «makes \t possible for them to be successfully administered by individuals of widely different character, M. Pave pu Cuauty, the celebrated African traveller, possesses & moet happy faculty for putting 214 adventures into aitrantive shave for children's | to the very reading, and his Wid Life under the Bgwator (Tar. pers) fe even moro entertaining than the “Stories of the Gorilla Country" which appeared last year. ‘There are in it any namber of strange histories, hant- Ing exploits, descriptions of queer birds, beasts, and fishes of a wou ler ond almost unknown c try, and of savage nationa sod o me, of which Iie or nothing has hitherto been told. Many of the ita which the teavelicr beheld were amusing aa well o¢ curfons, For instance, when he exme to tle village of Muondemo, the white man was rcevived earemony t Middle of the street, and there wa seated o A few men braver than the rr what they th aght the etrange being, the *p hu come among the “His Majesty Ine party, ollowed by his head man, Hoe wore on old red Ew J no other gorments, Ho was a sort, ti tad we a homer Ir of iron fare lowea by what L savposed to be the Minister, This one Lad J ouirt whieb bad only on h cout an lit negro, econd head his ¢ tume ia sleeve, aud ne ticn of adultos to be seen anywhere, a shirt that former must pave been ¢, bat had never been washed since ae whieh was severn) years before. Prime Minister had nothing else on. ‘The + wh of courrs formed part of of ifia M had ‘on an ol beaver hat and nothing els t followed him had one of those o neck fies nat o ck duckie, which were worn some thirty years ayo nd nothing ese, How the dovee Mid (hat fellow cravat? L asked myself, 1 learned the lind Inberited ft. ‘Then eame a fe hook or by crook, hi thoes; how he had 1 possession of sn ot them T was unable to fad ont, Hiv father bad perhaps loft them to him, Hew steady, how grave they looked, as they passed one afer snother befors me. Theee wore the leoding men of this Mbisho vilinge, They thought them. felves eplendid, and their people thought the same, They came out in state. “The third night after f arrived fn that etronge Village, thers was A now moon, As soon as the shades of eventng came, no one talked except in an rtone, The people hardiy came ont of th hute; all was aitert, In the evening the king carn ont of iis house ard danced along the street and body were printed white, blick, aed red, and frotted all over with apota the size of apench, In tho din moontiaht he had @ frleh:tul appearar Wi ich mado me shndior at frat, for Leontd nut botp thinking of the devil, T asked him why te punted thus, Dut he only answered by poluting to the taoun Without sperking a wore, “The day of tho new moon when te evening comes, a strange kiad of dread seems to Feige these people, In ail the tribes that thelr bodies with ochre, but been able to find out the reason, f# the embiem of tine, Henee, as the moon ap- poorer, many think that before it has dirappeared Again it will eat people; that te to say, that some one may die." A hundred other such particulara the writer lias to tell of the different tribes, ‘Then there Is an ac- count of lis first killing ® gorilla, and of elephant aod wild boar hunts without namber, Snakes alro occupy & Very prominent piace in the narrative, Those hideous and venom reptilea, often of day they mark a. never ‘To them the moon us ene size, wbound throughout the eountry, vc unong tho most dangerous denizens of the t 3 able, | a crea tur droated by a livin 4, that ¢ army of basttkousys the | for with ele; mingled wit! ete, all flee fore Uh The ents march in a long e two inchea wide, which sometimes takes awh @oy topors a given spot, showing the immense num- Nera which must be congregete! together, When on the march they never leave the line, al- though the most tempting prey may be close veside them; put when they deploy for they spread tn a front line over a wide and devour every Nving creature within thelr roach with terrible voraclty, Fach insect Is about half an ineh long and armed with a pair of strong nippers. Often, when tt has fastened these upon its prey, It Is eusler to sever the beat from the body un to toclasp the Jaws without also taking out a cot fesh, Snakes and ants, with the awarina of ni i mosquitoes which abound fn the Ar and the trying slimate, must have hac Kae rows Ducks to the pleasurcs of the expedition, Noverthvlora, the novelty aud excitement of bunting the strange game of the country, and ringing home 8 valuable collection of facts and specimens, doubt Jens repald the author for all the ineidental tronbles A very pleasant featnre of M, du Chaillu’s book 14, that ho seldom or never obtrudes his persoual dis- comforts on th lee of the reader, Tn some respects M. du Challlu writes In w enrt- ously simvle and anaftected way, Whatever he Wante to say he says directly, and he relates every. thing ay it befell him, with his own fear or mortiflea tion, or sometinves a litte pleased vanity, In an un- consel us and almost boyish fishion, Although it is really © narrative for children, written in somewhat disconnected fashion, yet there is in It so much that i striking and interesting, agrecably told, that tt must be almost as attractive for grown people, Nothing but Leaves is a poem, illuminated by Jean Lee, (uMeld Ashmead.) Each verse ix printed separately on tinted pop th a border of leavos, drawn and colored with taste aud feeling. ‘The volume i# handsomely bound, and makes a charting present, A Modern Historical Atlas, by Wit L. Gaam (Appletons), bas been prepared, to show tho civil oivisions of the leading countries of the world during the course of modern history, Itis not ia- tended to give all minute dctaila, but to present such view of the configuration of the different regions shall enable the aludent of Listory to follow intel- ligen'ly the course of events, The work i+ admir- ably execute new: a rald poisonoy ha _— oo Frightfal Condition of the Streets. Slush! That is the word to describe the atrects yesterday, both on the sidewalks and in th roadways. There is tradition that a large sum w once appropriated for the cleaning of Broadway; Dut that thoroughfare ts seeminely Blthfer aud more unwholesome than many of the leseer streets, Snow wed lee were constantly Delug ground into elush yester ud this the vehicles fimpolitely Mung Into the faces of pedestrians, 60 that tho transit from sidewalk to sidewalk was a task that might have staggered @ Leander, It was Indeed a time that ling them to exert thelr whole energy ty a fx: i tri men soles, In the uelghborhood of the thon for @ re ir length of time, On this account | police court Judge Whiting’s oMce, Police the workshop t# found to be more Lencieial than | Headquarters, City Hall, and other public the farm, since farm work docs not of noceasiiy | places, th strecta wore neglected, on the side strcets travel was vexatiously Impede especially where rallroad companies had sent the lowgh through to Lit the siow from the tracks, Encreby ratelnie hillock st insurmountable, In addition to this, occupants of houses, to prevent a prospective inundeti n, were busily ‘clearing the Snow from fot roo%s, and damp shovelfuls fell in all Aircetions, Wherever this was observed by the em- pio ces of the ruilrond companies, eonfict aroxe, ‘A case of this kind led to the arrest of Manrico O'Hara, Who Was accused before Justice Dodge of thiowing snow on the Hroadway Katiroad track in treet, therohy impeding the travel, No one 8 Fifth avenne or Broadway without ws ing half og deop in slush. At the corners of Broad- way and Fulton strect the appearance of the Loow bridge, without Fteps, was tantalizing to those Who desired to get te d ad. ‘The gentle rain which. fell in the evening unly ad led to the general disagreeablences, and many persons who were com- peled to walk Across the street were provoked to profanity. Groene could eri A Street Outrage. Te the BAitor of The Sun, Sin: From what took place yesterday (the Sabbath) we might be led to think it some of the you! hs of tis favored city bave lately been imported from a land of savages. ‘he writer of this is verg- ing on 67 years of age. He was returning from a de- ightfal meeting on Fund: and when at the co: of anh atrect and Tenth avanu men in pelting bim wi ent Ain i ae end, and shoulders, quite exhausted t barbarous attack, How many more met with (his cruel treat- ment is not for me to say, Are these desperate ‘cuths to de allowed their own way without hin Trance? T write this with a desire to promote the Welfare of aged people, and littie children in particu- lar, for they are the ones that suffer, Iwriteto Tur Svs knowing the good and just principles of that hich Y tak : it the year round. ba per JOHN OZANNE, Weer TWENTY-POUORTH @TREET, Dec, ¥8, 1868, ould have said that these desparadves 7 relay J. 0, have the hard balls made for When a simultaneous attack Ye made to merriment of the whole gang, [We have no doubt that the police, if called on, would protect Mr Oxpnne and others thus annoyed, Bp) #, gorillas, and «uch | usual, ough lacking customary tend | hess. He gives another concert at Steinway Hal t evening, The Tamu “tbe Tammar trumpet ae nothing.” Apart from the utter tncivil! om Als at the doors and elsewhere, the pieces were | y fuck @# one would have expected at) third rate casino, and the neting, with a few alight ehaden of exception, was AMUSEMENTS. pata rrenenl “La Perichole’ at Pike's Opera Honse, Whatever complaints Mr. Offenbach may have tomnke of life tn general, he certainly never ean complain thet he Is not heartity appreciated in this country. Indeed, if, like Franz Abt, he should ever conclude to come this way in renrch of a permanent remden e, itis re than probable that he would be @riven to icave the city to ret rid of himeeif, Whether in doors of out of doors, Le would be aMicted with bis own productions, whieh, not only are played in every concert room and perior, but every miserable Italian grinder earrice therm about with quure tortnre box. Just now a of the “Gens 1 be the dua in the car iest every one i# whistling the + d'Arines;" in @ few weeks tt first net of “La Perichol 18 opera has alrondy been from Paria, published in o. M F d, i 7 a5 ine Minister: D1 Porte 1 Hilo, her over (Anfae), are poor Wondering minetrsle, The Viceroy takes it into bis howd good old fhe aton of Haroun. abHtaschid tr the Arabian Nlehtw to ace for himself how his governed, ond how they end a wer so hee tn ater he may, His Prime M find ont aud patnte himecif np to be putin t yor t Len, and pass for the con- tented t afer yt at wee ft, and the Viceroy, a& rbuta if man, despairs of getting he truth Att pint he fulle in with Perichéie—vol only fails im with her, but allt in love, Ho persoades her to go to his court With him, and proposes at once to make her @ maid of hovor. But court etiquette requires malde of > over ¢ They m js sent to t Pegui'to, rted by La who is desper Pawn ing to 6 of himsctt y marriage a8 in any other way. To help bis wil- lingness to be married, and thet of La Perich(le to the same end, and that of the notaries to perform and ss will the ceremon j« produced and all parties be- ¢ very high and a trementons finale ts the result, the accond act Peguilla discovers who It 1 TA Pertohfle knew tt all a ches, then he forgives her, and t in cach other and t y finding himself left out in the st of the wit He conelndea y of the nito give them Kk with, and pis «the m ation. cold, mak t tho conatan mv va were ¢ piece last evening was all way 0 iy ACUI the ‘song * in fi she War tapturogsly encored rough. ated by-play kept the audiever tu a ight. Aujac sang splend and mate ar him in a part more worthy of bis genuine artistic abil Lagrifloul, and Fal- rd likewise di fent make-up and conscicn - Ole Bulls Concert. Ole Bull received an enthusiastic welcome from. Acrowded honse last evening, His playing was un- ‘on for Weir excel- pus acting. fo far below the dignity of the art that we do pot Hike to characterize it, We had hoped that © The Tammany” would have inaugurated & Mew Cre & t dramatic performances for the peop en ner, At actors N them nines werth ; Wut we will vent y' that every unbisesed man Who stood cut tie performances lust evening came Away Lotoniy isappoiuted, but very sorrowful at their utter failure. for Common 65,190.17 05% innds snd Blues for Batt A removing ob- arbor. 880005 100; salarien— a—for repairs rth t., Rast 2160,185 00 % $10,000 5 po; public driakin bys Aa A000; tala “repair a ‘781,509 00 tat $4000, 996,000 00 Cpitingeneisa: ichuding Tent or oillces 2 wi Nisei Mlariee $42,000, 77,800 00 Election eaves id for expedses Rourd of City Canvassers, wavertisiny Anil printing, rewarde for detecting an exposing tiicgal voting, and all othor Yeual charges attenats the charter eee, ton, hot vrovided for in mi the Board of Polee, $12.40... 185,000 00 vo stations, $46,190; police telegraph $7,400, . Pupiié instruction.” Cleaiilug strocts under combletion gf rondway, tightenth "Wards B51, froin City” Treas ‘53,850 90 8,180,000 00 Ment of, BB ta of nents, § snlarion, #190, 425, tor nd the estiunate of the amount re- quired for lev: Taw levied For tho State, For city puryores For couuty pur ose Making... To supply deile ‘Tota. ‘The following amoonts are required to be appro ropriated and provided for the purment Of that por- fion of interest on the city debt which, by Law, is payable from taxation: Joterest on revenue bonds 200,700 09 hterest on Central Park f Thos 20 Anterest on Central Park fund #U ck OF Sst? Badu OD nterest on Central Park addiional fuad ck : Aen s-++, 2,000 00 t ont ¥ nt tad ok of 1 3 150,090 00 Interest on ¢ stock of 1887. aay +, 124,002 00 Interest on Central Park tinprovenient fund ‘stock of 1 0,000 00 Interest on City Cemetery eioek 201.7) $19 9b Interest on public education stock of 100 0 Interest on New York city stock f Tntelgnt ot pa i for Feb ig Tomp- ome tel est on piiblie stock for rebulld tig Tom ‘ins Market. 05 00 Interest on street opening aad (inj overeat’ bonds. 62,500 00, Interest o Maw 0 nterest ov marke! uk. 154 Nerest on volunteer Tund Lords, Nov: 6,6, and hat 8 pir et, 100,000 co Interest on volunteer ‘sdidiers' hy ald fund bonds, Nos. %, 10, and il, a6 ier ct, soa00 oo Interest on volunteer soidiors! family aid nd bonds, No, 12, at 7 percent, debt fund stock of Isis... olunteer soldiers’ family wid’ fui 0. 8, redempiion of, Stock for docks and ollps Total ‘The estimated amount of appropriations to be wade (or 1300 le us followsy viz: tgleed For the support of the Clty : tui? oars id Cotam aslous.--"810,218407 06 Fer redemption of 5 iS a iblic education stock of 1878. lie stock for Febulleing Toi joating ee ~The Emperor of Russia is said to have hi come a confirmed hypochondring, —A religious revival is to be attempted im Chicago this week, 5 =Mre, John Wood, it is re theatre in London, <liow to make a notse in religions cireles—a Walk into church lite with a palr of ereaking booty ported, has bought @ Mowing your nose violently. =A German in W n drank thirty gi of iager to thirty-five minntes on a wag lived. ==" Bug-jutce” is the latest and perhaps nog the lesst sppropriate of tle slang synonyms fow liquor. =§, FB. Gladste of tt glish premiory hae Intely been ordained and inducted into a Hving tm La ede. ox finder 1 of the now Bitlis Cable net, A thot 1 appointed Secretary of W ne seccasion hiters of Kentucky want John ©, Breck rin for Governor of Kentucky, ar United States bit the distine guished exile secins not Inclined to accept the prot fered honors. —T nofthe ion, Mathews, wag { prowgat up te on © futher was once ed what profession the you 1 Was to follow { * roiucned the comedian, “he is to draw | fw his father ¢ Boston papers mysteriously at ast event? whtel {9 te co in that city Ina fow weeks, and which is to bo the st reunion of | known in the musical ann f this or ted country. —But tivo mem! ¢ John Brown party who captured Horper y and set ap a provisions fn) government for V are now living, Owes Brown, w rosides in Western Pen vinta, aod Osborne P, Anderson, 8 colored man, living in of the Amere torvble that they recess of mai of are abl inset b the best accome odations. Mr built af house and studio in the pleatant new quarter outside the Roe . Powers has also a handsome Mi uri drove into Quiney, ¥ aloud while to nnlond, went into a tavera near by afor a drink, Upon returning soon aftere | Ward he found that some cue bad, in his absencry sold out his hogs and all, p ‘ed the proc Al red, y to the statement of the Cold Spring Recorder that 4) woulda’t buys farm in Patnam county, the editor of the Fishkill Journal says “© Pooh! we have seen flelde of rocks In Putname county fenced in for the sole purpose of keeping cat tle out, for fear they would get In and starve tq death,” —The following statistics relative to the progress and condition of the Eptecopal chnreh tn the United States during the past yrar have been complied from the Intest reports poblielied im 1988 bishops 49, elervy partly stow for holy ord | 1 to Mr litles and to rieete cially to his ¢ | ness as apolitical and moyal retormer, Ttobservent | “Whatever else may be suid ngningt Mr. Greeley, r@ | one can fairly acense him of insincerity—no one eam truth(ully charge him with self-secking or timoservs ing. ‘Thowe who differ from him most widely « give him credit for un honest desire to serve hig country and to promote the welfare of his country< men.” —The announcement has just been made to the Royal Astronomical Society of England of the dis by means of the epectroscope, of a hitherta unknown envelope of gaxoous matter surrounding that body, of a thickness of seven or elght thousand miles. Its precise composition lias not yet been dex | termined, but will, probably, before long be ascers talned. At the same time Mr. Hugeins, who hag made #0 many important discoveries in reference ta the composition of the heavenly bodies by means of the Fpeetroscope, presented a communication, state ing that at least one comet contains carbon fu a stata of iguition, —A student ofa State college had «barrel of ale deposited in his room—contrary, of course, to tha Tule and usage. He received a summons to appear before the President, who said: “ Sir, Tam jaformod that you have a barrel of ale in your room.” " Yos, * “Well, what explanation ean you make? Why, the fact is, air, my physician advises me to try a little each day as a tonic, and not wishing ta sto at the various places where the beverage Is re= tatled, I decided on having ® barrel taken tomy room." “Indeed! And have you derived any bence fit from the use of it? “Ab yes, sir, When tha Darrel was first taken to my room 1 could scarcely Lift it; now I can carry it with the greatest ease."* —A gentleman in London fell in love with a Portrait of a beauti‘ul girl which he raw in a photos grapher’s raloon, and declared he would make (he original his wife. “You cannot do #0," replied the Photographer, “ for she ts only a serv: He vows ed that tile should make no difference, At last it ‘wae agreod that the gentleman should dine at the photographer's, that the girl should wait upon bin And that he should thus have an opportanity of secs Ing whether his admiration was deep enough to stand the sight of his goddess in cap and apron, It stood that test, and very soon the servant-godidess becamd the wife, ‘The relation of this story ina London pa per is said to have already caused suveral pretty axe vant girls to offer their faces to photocraphers, —Mr, Barham Zincke, an English traveller im tls country, has recently published a volume of © Table Tatk," $n which he detuils a winter's expos rience in tho United States, Discns+Ing the ques culls attention ta © great excellence Linck, * te th ‘s isthe most eo shows thaf ¥ £35 per ane tion of onr common schools, he that wh hy in bis view, forins ». Ouray” says Mr, ducation In the world; the ical.” In iustrath of thts, while in Ragland a tradesman most nam for Lis child at a Hoarding school, and £16 at a good day school, In New York there are £27,09{ scholars educated at total cost of dirty shill ber head, —A method recently sug ted for increasing the strength of metal tubes subjected to great expans sive forces, as can Flinders of hydraulic presses, &e,, consists in heating the cylinder wad couting it with a layer of copper and tin, or of pure tin, By means of a machine, strong iron or steel wire, pree viously coated withthe same substunce, is wound round the cylinder tu acoutinuous spiral, the tuna ia civse conta J several layers being made ond above the other, the cylinder being kept hot all the time, so that the wire remains in a fleaible condition, Iron rings may be placed out-ide the spiral wraps pings, and an extraordinary degree of strength ims parted, 80 a6 aluost to obviate the usual dangers consequent upon bursting, —A Florence correspondent of the London Daily News gives an account of a remarkable trinmph in that city of Madame Ristorl in the part of Maria Antoinette, She had been playing at a small ‘4nd inartivtic theatre, but concluded to represent tha Part once at the Tagliano Theatre, the largest in the city, and capable of holding 6,000 oF 1,000 people, The price of admission was put down to a very low figure, and it was expected that a republican demone Stration, and ove hostile to the Bourbons, would taka place, Accordingly, the theatre was filled to ita utmost long before the eurtaln rose, and with am audience which was largely made up of those who ‘Were hostile to the Bourbons, But the demonstra tion was altogether diferent from what had been expected, Madame Ristori was so grand in ler part that the impressible Italians filled the house with Weeping from the beginning to the close, ‘The aus lence heartily applauded the declarations of adhes rence to thelr sovereigns by monarchists, and growled out, * Down with him,” wien some conrse sane culotte aid his bloody hands on the delicate features of the Queen, The play lasted from § o'clock in the evening until 1 in the morning, and was in all respects a triumph for Madame Ristor!, and the * company, who were bardly leeq ‘om several Darta,