The Sun (New York) Newspaper, July 30, 1869, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, pelatarvee BOWERY THEATER—Cnele Tom’ Cabin and Dick Tarpin. WALLACK'®Tho Long Strike, Matinée on Saturday. WIBLO'S GARDEN—Good for Nothing, Ixlon, and Sin- bad the Satlor, BOOTH'S THEATRE. 26d st., botweon Sth and (ii ave Enoch Arden, Matinee Saturday. WAVERLRY THEA THK~ Moon Charm, Loca} Mts, Ae. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. 11) ava between doth aad sth OLYMPIC THEATRE -Bccory Piceore Dork. Mati+ hes at 1% 0°61 Sataraays, Wood's MUSEUM Le Legs, and Dodeing a Wie, Evening, Jack . BRAND OPFRA HOUSK, 2d at and Sib ay. Satan fo Parle, Matinfe Saturday. a = = 3 The were Sun, FRIDAY, JULY 40, Terms of tho Sun. DarLy, per year to ria. Bexr-Weexty, per year ‘Ten copies to one addrer 0 | ‘Twenty copies to one nadions 50 Fifty eopies to owe addtroms 40 Warxcy, per yrar... ‘Twenty copies to ow Fiity copies to one ad. Adaitiona: copies, tn Clad Payment dayariably io ad vai ADVERTISING RATES Fountm Baan, per line ....+ adrena ‘Three lines (22 works) oF eos 5 conte FrrciaL NoTiCEs, per Line cen Bretyese Novices, per ue 1 ceute LRADED ADVEWIISkMRNTS Charged oven plod. iy Weexiy sly for the space per line a above The in the Coantrs, Reader of Tan Svx going to th weceive Uselr favorite paper by mat’. d ents a month, ty add? country can ly, at Pity with their & scription, to our Publis Notice to Correspondents. Don't speak of the President as His Ex fency. He bat no such title, Snobs may give it to hiro, but thut only dieplaye their lankey Agnoranee, m or their In addressing the President, doo't eal! him * Your Excellency." That '# » phrase unknown to our laws and arnves, If you wish to write a letter to the Chief Macls trate, oddress it simply To the President. You ean slxo begin it with that noble monosyllable Bir.” ‘Then you will be all ri But" the Bx ecllency," or * Your Excellency," will be ws wrong be it is pretentious, —— = A Job that is Not Creditable. The Hon, ALbxaNvEn Ramey, of Min nesota, Chairman of the Postal Comin) ites in the United States Senate, is now in Par! as agpectal Fuvoy Extraordinary and Min ister Plenipotentiary from our Postmaster- General, th negotiate a new postal treaty with the French Government, His arrival there is announced almost in the sane pa pers which inform us of Mr, WastnukxE’s absence from his post, varying the monotony of official life by @ turn amid the gambling and the glitter of the Gennan watering places, Now will Mr. Creswent be good enough to inform the poople who pay the taxes what right hewHas to spend vight or ten thousand dollars of the public funds in order that an amiable old gentleman like Mr. Kamsey may travel in Europe without cost to himself? We should address this inquiry to Gen. Giant also, but while the war steamer Talla- poosa is lying off Long Branch as his plow sure yacht, we feel that any question to him One or two other intimate friends of Mr. Car- FAX will complete the excursion party. We need not any with what cordinlity this inter esting expedition will be welcomed af the various towne along the line of the journey— what congratulations will be exchanged, what speeches will be made, what eennon will be discharged, what fireworks will be let off, what brass, bands will Gill the air with music, what telegrams and letters will be sent to the newspapers. While we give our cordic vd wishice to this memorable combination of pleasure travellir that we thiuk ao invitu to go along ought to have been sent tous, Te § was the first paperto nominate Mr. CoLyax for the Presidency, and to tell how Anna- | Hast Lixcony prophestod that the eourtcou and popular Spoaker—for whom all the girls and widows were then setting ther caps, and ell the young mothers naming their babics—would soon Lecome Prost dent. Kut wo ore not going to stand | on triflea. Of all our etatesmen, no one | understands and appreciates the Prews as well aa Mr. COLFAX. This ia proved not only by his making Messrs, Bross and Bows the constant companions of his sum mor excursions, but by lis frequently lodging when in this city at the house of the esti- Tribune. So that w and shall sond one of the brightont wut to report his epec tice to the movement for making him Presi dent, just the ame as though he had Invited our ns to ride over the Rocky Mountains in his palace car When will Gov. Hoffman Palfit: his Promise ¢ The Hon, Jounx VT. Hore an, Governor of New York, made a solunn pledge to tho friends of Eowand B, Kerenust thet ho woud pardon him out of State's Prison, This promise was made while the applica. tion for Kerenum’s discharge under a writ of habeas corpus was pending, The condi tion of the promise was that the application on Kwrenuat's behalf should bo withdrawn, and the prococd in the Bupreme Court stopped. In reliance on this promise the condition on Kerenum’s part was duly performed. When will the Governor fulfil his promise ? wlio The Democratic Candidates. ‘The Democratic candidates for the Preat. and clectioneering, we must pay | mable and wealthy Mr. Sixciarn, tho prin- | cipal proprictor and real manager of dhe shall go for Courax, of tiom of « sosiety tn thts oity for the protection of mankind, Fatal accijepts here are of hourly oc- currence, Mem and women fall from decks and piers every day in the week, and suicides are so frequent that the reporters dismiss them in two- lino items. Occasionally brave fellow, like Midshipman Mason, rescues @ poor drowning | ( | wretch, but he generally receives his reward in | an innate cousciousness of a generous aot. Let to the United States, is rusticating at Spa until September, when he will embark at Brest for tl | New York, and previous to his departure froma | >: | Europe he will have on interview with Prince Gourcuawory, who is at Bad re The Niw York Timea will undoubtedly undergo a radical eb | as Mr. Biowwow is inaugurated ae ite editor, | Thowtow isa very strong free trader and a very | uncertain Republican, The paper will be deci- Ja niike what it was under Mr, Rarwonn, and while it <will bo characterized | | by talent, they will be rather adapted to the few | Mr. diy than fo the many, Mr. Biaerow's articles in the | Koening Zvst, though they had but « limited nomber of readers, attracted cons derable atteus tie ti , and the Zier depends more on its adver+ Tho paper will be | likely to become rather French or European, and The sort of make- nO Jonna, the rite columns, | hy ay ents than its cire jation, | less American in its tone, | weisht influence whieh Mr, pub will 1, has always exercised o so be missed, We learn from the Springflld | that a Scotch colony ef several hundred families | is soon to settle in Sehuyler Colfax county, Ne- | ¥ | braska, Of course they will all vote for SenuyLAR | Couvax for President, though tho Hepuddican | ™ does not Hay 90. — Mr. SkWAiD excites as mue in the British d enthusiasm inions on the Pacific as in | « may it wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brs to whieh he bowed and swiled his thanks, This shows how ready those colonists are for annexation to the United States, Tn his xpeech, Mr. Sewano professed a great friendship for England. This is all right, expe- | st clully as we are going to get all her North Ameri. | va can colo 0%. —— President Guan, in his answer to the con- gratulatory despatch of the Emperor Naronson on the laying of the French cable, ventures the expression of his hope “that the tiberal policy of tha United States, pursuant to which the eable dency are Judgo Ciase, Gen, Hancock, Senator Henpntcks, Mr, PexoLeror, and Governor IlOFFMAN, Chief Justice Cnask 1s conducting his campaign very actively, He travela South and ho travels North, He has just beon up to old Dartmonth to attend commencement, and thence, coquetting among the Repubti. cans, le repairs to the country house of the Hon, Wu.iiam M, Evans, at Windsor, Vt. Gen, Haxcocx, although « handsome man, and in the estimation of ANDREW JonNson our second WASHINGTON, is apparently laid out cold by his recent fa.lure to get the Dem- ocratic nomination for Governor of Pennsyl- vania. pont other il! and illegal uses of | public cash ® os But what excuss has Mz Cunewar Ruandering without author, money that i* wrung f ings of laboring men and w the strict honesty «i Sstration of the public business whieh was Ppromieed ust Or is it kiimply a discreditable | job, intended to placate the Postal Committee of the Senate, and render it plastic next winter in the hands of the Postmaster-Gen- eral? If there be any need for a new postal trea ty with France, we trust that Mr. Wasi BULNE Is competent to make it; or if he Sen't, call him home and send somebody who fs. If Mr. Secretary Fert has go little confi- dence in his distinguished prodecessor in the Btate Department ae to think him unfit for so elementary a duty, he might perhaps be willing to xo out himself in his place, No- body would object to that, certainly ; but paying Mr. Wasunenne sixteen thousand dollars a your in gold to do nothing in Paris, and then paying Mr. Rastery ten thonsand dollars more to noyotiate a siniple treaty there about postuge, is carrying the jok« altogether too far, especially when done by a Pres dent solemaly pledged to e te the Jaweé to the letter, and enforce a rigorous economy in the public expenditures, Cannot Mr, Cres went favor us with some explanation of this very unpleasnt-looking Dusiness which will releve at loast to seme extent its ominous features? We should Ye delighted to luy before the public any ver son of the facts tending to restore that con. fidence whieh the previous career of the Postmaster General has 80 well deserved. Mr. Collax Golug to California. We knew be couldn't stay quiet. With Mr. Sewanp travelling ap and down the Pacific coust, making hte fine persuasive speeches on the annexation of allthe rest of North America to the United States, and get tng votes by the thousand, how could Benvuyiaen Conrax lie lazily on his oars Y Bo he, too, is going: to start out once more on Lie travels, And may prosperity and all possible blcesings attend him all the way out end back! _e, Mr. GoLPAx leaves Chiengo for San Fran. clseo on Wednesday noxt. He takes one of PULLMAN's mugnificent palace cars for him If and his party, He is accompanied of course by his young and charming wife. ‘'Thig is an advantage that few former candi dates for the Presidency have poascssed, when they have prosented themselves to the people before thelr nomination. He is also attended by two devoted editors who have long en- joyed his friendship and been pledged to hin support, And whet is more, they control two of the ablest and most powerful journals in the United States, Alaska included, We mean of course Gov. Broas of Illinois, the principal editor and proprietor of the Chica- go Tribune, and a writer of much power and | ter into competition even with those of | He is better, but can communi Teaniing; end the Hon, Samuns. Bow.ws of | Southern Ohio, They have the genius; it | ily and friends only by conversing with them at Massachusetts, the brilliant, original, and audacious editor of the Springfieid Ropublé- een. Bach of these gentlemen will be attend. ef by his daughter, who will act as his pri- Yotd secretary. Mr. Bowne, it will Bo Te | not be ont of place in this city, Mr. Buwow in | to select the victims from the railroad has been spoken of avs candidate | doing « noble work iu behalf of dunb brates, but | direetors, Perhaps the experience of our ailfict- epee sour ‘ i Senator Wrxpnicks may loom up in the future, but just at present his prospecie seem rather obscure. Mr Pexpierox is thrown into the shade, ministration of the Treasury, which lane cast a damper on the prospects of those who lean toward repud ation. Gov. Horr an is represented to be entire ly confident iving the nomMation. He relies perhaps too much on his moustache, and may uot prove as suceeestul ae he an: ticipates, Ho is terribly bothered at present about the Krrcuum case. He sentenced Krrenost illegally, and then, to prevent the exposure of his Ulunder as Recorder, prom ised to pardon Kercitom out of the State Prison. In this way ho got a lawy: to interfere and withdraw Kercuum's ap plication fora discharge andor habeas corpics. Kerenum wes withdrawn, but the Gov ernor is now very backward about coming forward to pardon him. He don't know what to do about it, It is rv ported that the promise was in writing contained in a letter to a friend— which was shown to several friends, We think there is uo doubt that the Governor made the prom. se. Ho onglt to consult with C Case, who is also in a quanda habeas corpus eas f Justice y about a But we think Judge Cuase keeps his promises, as he pays his notes, promptly. —— Not a Pair Shake, Is it true that while the distillers of whiskey eroabouts are subjected to a rigorous execu. tion of the tax law, the distillers in the West, and especially in Ohio, are allowed to defraud the revenue? This is what is af firmed and believed, and it is not creditable to Mr Commissioner DELANO and bis West orn subordinutes, Neither la iteroditable to the Hon. Jessen R. Guanr, father of the President, who is said tu have controlled the appointment of internal revenue officers in all the southern portion of Ohio. ‘Two of the priucipal news paper men of Cincinnati—Field Marshal Monat HALsTwan of the Commercial, and Deacon Ricuann Suir of the Gasette—a virtuous man, thongh connected with a pa suitable persons for those offices at the special request of Gov, Hayes and Commis. sioner DeLAno; bat, lo and behold! the Hon. Jesse R Guan had been before them and heads. why fraud is now believed to be on the ram. paye in the distilleries of that quarter. But the country are allowed to cheat and steal qiore than others, However, if the friends of free whiskey wv De CHR and chance that our distillers can once more en. is only the opportunity that is denied them, — London, Liverpool, and all the great mari time cities of Europe have organised societies for the saving of human hfe, Buecb # society would philantheopiet could wine nobler Mae cenid ‘besd Mo emaciios 9 4 rae per of loose principles—made out a list of had got his fellows appointed over their Perhaps this is the great eause whatever be the reason, there will always be complaint when the citizens of one part of here can now succeed In turning out Super JoUecetor BLAKK, and a iy other hovest officers, there will be @ | days he was taken with the atall-pox in its most has been landed, may result,” and go forth, and #0 forth. The only policy which the United States has adopted has been to refuse, through their representatives iu Congress, permission to «i the cable, Does the President imagine that his personal resolve not to fultil his duty of see- ing that the rights of the nation are perfectly re- kpected, constitutes the “policy of the United States’? Ifhe docs, he will probably find out his migtake in due time. - a At a recoss of the Court, during the trial of Policeman Camrnent before the Oyer and Terminer, yesterday, Judge Carnozo was noticed reading Taw Sox with profound attentioa, and | evidently with much interest, By ite indepen- dent course in reference to the conduct of our Judges —praising their good deeds and censuring those that deserve consure—-Tua Sux has be- come the favorite journal of the yuticiary. AM | ¢ our Judges—Judge Lore and Judge Giuunar | a among the rest—like a paper that successfally | p aims at judicial fairness in all things; and those like it best who most traly manifes¢ in their own acte this same judicial fairness. The defeat of the House of Lords on the Irish Chureb bill does not by any means portend a speedy abolishment of the armtocracy and royal family in Great Britain, On the contrary, the | ¢ flunkeyism of the English people toward their natural superiors # ows no. mony, and the instant the guests rose the ladies jooking om made a rush at the Prince's plate, Th or danger, interfered; but it turned out | st the Indies wanted the cherry-stones the | « Vrinee had left from his dessert, They were ac- | t tuully distributed one by one as relics, and ove young lady, wheu the stones were all gone, beg- ged and prayed for the crumbs the royal fingers had touched, Avain, @ week or two ago the Princess of Teck had to be protected in the Bo- tanical Gardens by @ cordon of police, the ludics rushed after her in sueh mobs, according to one account, making little clutches at her dress. ‘These incidents show that the great English heart still clings to its idols, amd ia far from being ready to surrender them. peasiaroune a Wouldn't it be the thing for Mayor Hauw to shoot off a few cannon in the Park on account of the victory of Lady Thorn over Goldsmith Maid in the great trotting match of Wednesday ? We listened atl day yesterday for the sound of His Honor's guns, but he didn't let them off, We hope he will attend to it to-day, If neces | # sary, he can order the firing by @ telegram from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, This is distinguished from the former occasion when the Mayor fired his cannon by there having been # contest, Such remarkable triumphs of American genius and industry ought to be duly, recognised by the authorities of this commercial metropolis, ——— - «1 u " The London Spectator says, ina paragraph | y upon the situation of the Cuban question, that ‘there are signs that the Spanish Government means to sell Cuba, The want of money at home is extreme, the Treasury cannot beur the expense of further reinfor vident from the tone of the new Captain-Gencral that he has little hope of reconquering the island.” It is qaite certain that every dollar Spain could get for Cuba now would be a double profit, A very few months longer will compel her to relinquish it for nothing, and to lose besides the expense of a fruitless war for its retention, . pagbuolaltal ‘ A prominent direetor of one of our city railroads reeently took passage in a Seventh ave- car, and rode twelve or fourteen u t ents, and it ix nue railt or another, have. ape ange in its politics as soon | 0) by society, and have to a certain extent been made obligatory, The intuitive theo! declares that there are | man fundamental instinets of riht While are the ground of moral tdeas, entirely ap fram otlier considerations. latter, wheimed oF put aside by other co constantly reaaserts itself tion between right nd wrong, | _— | Iinalle the practical application of country I regard sense of daty, purvue dirvetiy ¢ conduct, principles which are changes constitute one branches of of hamanity 48 one early developed, but ite manicon- tations vary greatly with diffrent circumstances, Th one stage of eivilizat more then consideration for the members of the family, oF tho state, and may permit gros erucity toward all outsiders; while an consideration toward :¢very member of the buuan race, the utilitarian and intuitive theor declaring his own adherence to the Lecky fails to seo the opportunity wlich bis own reasoning affords for a purtial reconciliation be- tween the two. Proposition, to which he brings fo many proo: there is an instinctive desire la the mind of mai however faint or blind it may be, to week for ty truth, and to act rightly, without reference to tonal happiness, the particular moral sentiments implanted tn the human race, bia statements are loss convincing, and however, Mr. Lecky says nothing, igns of diminution, | th and re unfolded purveyor, who perhaps thought his spoons | ‘The virtuca of wuctvilixed ine tues by civilized men, bat they are nev in the natne perfection, nor given th Hon iy the seule of duties, Of these moral changes none are wore obvious tan the gradual deealedee of heroism both active and passin compassion and of chority, und the euthuytoam of loy: Hberty, creases with clyilization I ve of the manner in whet 1 encourages those virtucs whieh are necc tain the nat notions of the nutans characters of men a: pations, and the republ with a view to military su ef in the first staes of their existence, Delled to ds powerfal neighbors. fimching patriotism, were the care nothing for, was always at least he should not complain, But over the things within his dominion hie should exereise the most rigid wapremacy, All idle emotions, all baseness or deceit, should be banished fro will should be applied to enforcing in himself what he adjndged noble and good, ‘The Stoic platosophy formed & singularly elevated mi no claim to revelation, was with retigion, and, 'ndeed, one remarkab® featere in SOME WEW BOOKS. a History of Morals that we have oceasion to notice Leeky’ Tt in not often ‘& Worn of fo much rescarch and original thonebt as Wrwsam Evwann [Hanrrotn Leon's lfstory of European Morale, from Augustus to Charlemagne. ‘Appleton & Co.) In its two volumes are traced the ‘mental and moral movements of the Roman Empire and of Kurope in tie dark ag ; the origin and us have @ society that will suitably seoognize and | TFelopment of the Pagan plilovop and the rise reward such ncts as thit of Midshipman Masox, | M4 dominion ot Cnristiunity, Tn order to obtain & thliiptiiaani firm foundation for ro comprehensive an inquiry, Mr. Catacazy, the new Russian Minister | M* Lecky opens the work with an investigation of the two schools of morals which, ander one name nt Op y discussion of he su ject, Aa they stand at present, tue wtllite inn theory mudntains that the witimate source of } moral ideas is @ desire for happiness, which expe- Baden, nH nee bas shown ean pest be obusned by following rtaln Jaws, on that aceoant denominated good, howe actions which will aecure the groatest happl S Of the greatest number are ierefore extolled ,on the other hand, antod OF these two theories Mr, Lecky a he main points of his dastelne puon of a ‘ence between right and wrong, and more or Jews acknowledge an obligatiom resting upon them Part from any pursuit of advantage oF laypi sue the right. ‘The ides of duty he maiutan « primary ono, and although it is continoally over- Jderations, it aul 4 its powor tn th Bat while tue perception of a diatine- d tue ackno wledg right, are almowt humanity, bo advnite that seutiment la very it in One age or in another, and under weh different circumstances two men nay, from a nman mind, it Of am obligation to fulluw th ble properties arlay What ts regarded porta courses of Vet there are, we aro t. universal aa J, certain emential moral 9 veatn innate, In every age virtue has cousisted of the cultivation California, At Vancouver's Istand the officials | of the sane feciines, though tie standards of excel and the people vied with each other in welcoming | tence attained have been different, ‘There is a cor him to their shores. ‘They made him speeches, | tain sense in which moral distinctions are ab: and he replied beautifully, and they serenaded | #0lnte and immutnble, There is another #ense him with the star spangled banner oh long which they are altogetier relative and transient, There are some acis whion are so mani fe that they are regarded as wrong io the very carli stages of the cultivati What may be termed the prinil olements of morals are unaltered, there is a perpetual cli tly and grossly opposed to our mori) foclings, f ow 1 Of there fersiags,”* etn tho andard which is exacted, and also in the relative alue atuehed to partiewiar virtues, and these of the most imporiant oral history,” Thus the sent it may demand nothing ber stags requires In going over all the arguments for and agatnat owever, and tuiive, Mr. It wonld be bard to dispute the that Bat when he comes w discussing Ww reader is led to think that the utilitarian philow phere may be more waccew#ful in accounting for the formation of any practical code of morals, While the desire to do right may be an essential quality of the soul, the relative virtne which is atinibuted to different actions probably springs from ie Dencfielal or injurtous effects which they pro juce, und 1 ie their relation to te “greateat bap- ness of the greatest number” witch has caused them to be held as rightor wrong. Thus » man nay desire to do right from his own nature, but nin ‘ws as to what i practloally right may be derived ol frow bis own Instinets, but from the views of the society about him as to what is best to be done for the general beneft, Of such « compromise between the two throries, Tlaving explain. d his own views as Wo thie essentially intuitive source Fmorals, he proceeds to portray with groat #kill moral condition and development of the Roman The trince of Wales, for example, lately laid the | Empire, and that of civilized Karope after being cormerstone of an Orphan House in Hereford. | @verwhelmed by the northera hordes, ‘The provost ne There wae a grand luach after the core. | 19 fF which he conten.ts, hemay', Ws thas * there In neh a thing as wuatural biwetory of morals, a defn lar order in whies our moral feelings are n other words, that there are certain roups of virtues which apring #pontanconsly vut of he Creumatances and mental conditions of an un- ivilixed people, and (vat (here are others which are he normal and appropriate products of civilization are recognized ax vie or exhibited eaine post: the increase of transition from y to those of patriotism and Another form of virtue which asuaiy In racity."* ‘The early Roman civilization is a striking example moral code of a people y to eae Ax Mr. Lacky aye A very and definite tyne of moral ex ‘¢ Was ted before men hod formed way cleur intellectual and sauctions of virtue, The vefly governed by thelr occu. ic being organized altogether it had attained al) he virtues end vices of # military society.” The Ro. ere com 1 theuselves againet their ce and military ekil, un- ities held ampng hem in the highest esteem, ‘Their nobivst Ideal was he man who #erved his country without hope of ro. Courage, ward, and without reckoning the Most to mimeelf, To promote guch devotion to the pain or d ate, contempt for ontrol and endurance were enltt ated, On the basis of hese feclings sprang ap the Stole philosophy, expounding and eluborating the sontimenta which were at tue root of the Romaa character to beuttained by the deve) Te tau, Mt a proud Independence, which was pMeut of utter Indifference trol of tho Stoic, Pain, atieted by others, he should 1 they became intolerable, death thin easy call; and if he preferred lite, 10 overytliing beyond the misfortune, the disgrace his mind, and his anbending yetem, It mad ntircly unconnected j itwas the extravagont dignity whieh i$ at- blocks, und here is the result: On his return to | isibared to the intellect and viriee of) ka. his homo ia the evening, he told bis wife that on | manity, But, although the germs. of Btoiciem taking hit seat in the car the peculiar smell of | were to be found diffused through the whole the cushions offended him, and that he fearod that some diseased person had oecupied the seat, ‘The gentleman had rented a cottage at a pleasant seaside resort, and moved his family there in a fow days after bis ride in the car, In about ten malignant form, and barely escaped with his life, to with his fam- a distance, He is confident that he contracted the disease in the railroad car, If the publio are to be subjected to the danger of contrect- ing loathsome and fatal diseasos from pub- lic vehicles, it may be thought desirable ed officiel may give usan improvement in the oleanliness of the cars of his road, framework of Roman soctety in is earlier stiges, yetyas the philosophy itself became more developed, it# practical application grew less common, and the period at which Stoicism bad reached ity most ele vated and brilliant stato was that epoch in the Roman empire which has become so celebrated for degradation and corruption, Into the causes of this much discussed phenome- nov, Mr. Lecky euters more fully than we have space to represent, But in fmrther tracing the his- tory of moral philorophies we And that the stern and simple tonets of Btoiclom became somewhat ameli- orated by the political incorporation of the Greeks, ‘whose more gentle and wsthotic nature, and more subule intellect, exercised » powerful influence over thetr conquerors, The schools of morals, as the Greek. culture became ascendant, had less reference to ac- ‘tow and preetioal dalics, the great aim of Stoiciem, and Became more speaulative and rbetortesl, Vol ‘Wwing thie change came the introduction of the re- a Uetons of tha Orient and of Reypt, and the mind, which hed tong been obliged te rauiety with the fralt of Ite own reflections, ented grovdilp 08 theologteal conseptons which came to it wito am- thortty professing to bs beyond the reseh of peason, As areaction from what, our anthor says, might be calied the positive philosophy of Stotetwmn, come the mysticiame of the Rast, which almost ig- ngred the reasun, and derried activity of any kind, oven wen for desirable ents. They cunobled the Lies Of & passive existence, whose greatest merit was the cestary, and io the contemplation of trath, which ‘was to be attained, not by any effort of the Intellect, bat by © supreme intuition, the reward of a mystical fubmission, With these doctrines, coming from Egypt and Asis, und received with avidity, Christumity came leo, destined to revolutioniae the intellectual evndi tion of the Roman Empire, Tho prosress of the new Teilgion it Is DOs necemary hore to trace, but the ine fluence which Itexerted over the whole moral and mental condition of mankind was extreme. In iis earlier and porer form, wowever, It was a most tle enemy to the material welfare of tie State, ‘The attention of ft converts, which had belore beea | directed toward tae maintenance of tne empire, was an eternal goal, which alove seemed nporal affairs were held of snail ac- coast, and they cared little who ruled, or how the empire went, #0 long as the Churel was exteuded and new souls gained to eternal lifs, As the power of the Church increased, tte effects heeaine mo: d, What Mr, Lecky names t amniabie virtues became predominant in place of the herole, Faith was substituted for whe inquiring spirit encouraged by the antique philosophies ; hu- mility was striven for In place of the independent pride of the Stoien ; aoeve ail, toe spirit of hamanity was strengthened, and overcame to a great extent the reckless Indifference to human life and suffering which ind before be mom, A sentiment of uciversal brotherhood, which had before been only now sprang up, Clarity and love were In 4, 0 f seli-denial, celibacy, and unquestioning obedience deean ideal of virtue, and the Institution of countices monasteries throug ope bore witness of the extent (o whieh it was atopted, But the ame general course may be observed in the growth of the Christian religion ax in that of Poeun philosophy, Tn the beginning it was price tived aa well ax profesmed by it# converts, and the jo teachings of Christianity were gealously by thedive!plen, But as ecelemastieal author: uasnified, the purity of thy religion beearme red. By tha lime thas it was commonly dif and acknowledged, it exercised only u very a}, aud, in a nimucr, euperdetal Influcnee over the mass of the people, Whose moral condition wank fearfully below the {deal proposed, It was the gen- eral corraption aud deceit, which ad flourished un dor the wings of the Chureh, that finally brought abcut the reaction of the Reformation, The history of Christianity up to the reign of Charlemagne exhibite many chances, The aniwating spirit of the new religion was at diferent thoes catholic and charitable, long-suffering, aseetic, im tolerant, ambitions, military, But there att re: main an {te most prowinent features the lofty model of aelf-renaneiation whieh 18 proposed, the spirit of niversal philantaropy and spiritual eqaal- ity which it inculcated, mingled, uafortunately, with au intellectual Intoveranee and a free use of vio Jence toward all contrary opinions, which were wholly unknown tn the ancient worlt, and from which modern soclety is only now beginaing to Fr cover, Intellectual honesty and froodom of thought, universal in the preceding era, were almost cnurely suppressed, Mr. Leecky'® work closes with a briof review of the position of woman in these different con:titious of woctety, of the effucts of female influcnee im the varlons stages of development, and of the results of such development upon womau's standing, ‘The work, as a whole, ¥ one which shows careful snd even brilliant thouzht, » mind free frow perju- dice, but inclined to take a genial and encouraging view of huinan nutnre. withvut ignoring any of the evila which it #0 frequeutly wanticsia, Mr. Lecky han not, of courre, exhansted Lhe subject, of even that henited part of it which he has undertaken to explore, Neithor should we be fuchnod apon all points to trust oarsciven imphoitiy to his coucta- sions; but he has certainly given to all etadente of history aud of human matare & most Interesting 1nd valuable book, —— STOCK SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY, shite The Forgery ot Stock Cortifintes on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Rail read- Uperation: Mi Central and Puente Mail Stock Thousands of Dollars Supposed to be at Stakes The investigation into tho forgeries of George \: Abbott wns beld-Festerday mowing at the ‘Vomba, before Justice Hogan, On Tneaday last Abbott wax arrested by Detectives Doyle and Harvey, apccial bank officers, on the charge of forgery. On July 10 Abbott went to the office of William Heath & Co., 15 Broud strect, and instructed Charles B, Quincy w purchase two handred sbares of Culeayo, Rock Railroad wtock, valued, with the t $22,001 The shares were purchased aad delivered, On Pucelay last Abbott ogain culled, avd desired Mr, Quincy to sell bis railroad shar ond purchase instead 5:30 U. 8. bonds, He theu handed him the certiflestes, which had the appear ance of being the same that had beca sold w Liu on July 10 Their susp cions having been aroused, Meath & Co, in order to be sure that all was right, went to the Railroad Company's oftee, and ere found that the original cortifieate for one bundred of the shares Mad beoa retarned to the office and cancelled, It became, therefore, evidentethat the \iuplicate then tn Heath & Co.'s possession must be ‘forgery, and Detective Doyle was placed on the wateb for the return of Abbott, who was arrested, It now appears from (he testimony of William B Readford, of M Broadway, that about th Joly Abbott instructed stock; easily get rid of the forgeries by representing thi as the originals, But for the prudence of sleats & Co, this would doubtless have been the renalt Tho arrest of Abbott hus brought to Light asimt. | # lar operation in witch he wus engared ander (h4 name of . I, Dodge, Some time in May he pur: chaved one share of Micutrin Central tock in the name of E. H, Dodge, and subsequently two other certificates, exe for single shares, one fy the name of J. I. Dodge, tho other tm that of Win, Fowle. About the latter end of June he parehased three other certificates, two for 6) shares each, in the name of J, Little & Co, and one for 10) shares, in the name of Robinson, Cox. Co, ‘The single ehare certificates he altered to Do ncarty facsimiles of larger certificates, One ining had, however, been forgotten, ang that wns the impression of the cons Dorbing oF deficlug pers for the Hnternal revenue stamp, which on the (ace showed the date Jui i While'on. the back the Impression of one was Ma; 15, and another July 7, A’Wer changing the denom himost possitie negation of the body, the sonroe of The best life was that rpent in a «tate of undreds of 10th of him to sell one of the certl- fleates for 309 shares, and on te 1th of July the other, the proceeds to be invested in Pacific stail 1 that Mr. Bradford thas disnoted of the originals, while Abbott, no doubt, thought he could WORLDS on rine. —* Huge Blazing Orbs of Fire Fly’ the Kontms of Space. From the Mritsh Quarterly Revtee On the T%h of May, 1896, « great conflagra- through tion, infinively larger then'that Of London or Mos cow, wis uunounced. ‘To use the expr a Cistinguished wetronomer, a world was fonnd to be on fire. A star, whieh fil then hy aod Gnobirnsively in the Corona Be Viaged wa date alominacy of tu Th te course of three days fre Wis new chammoter by Mr. Birming! Wad declined tw the third or brilhaney. In twelve dave, daun, shone mck yan, at Terai, it n fourth order of trow its first apparition in the Irish heavens, It had sunk to the elenth rank, and it went on waning unti tho sth of dune, whep it ceased to. bo discernible except throagu the edigm of e telescope, This wee @ remarkable, though not an annrecedented proceeding on the but one sin; eireumetance in ia of neary two jot with tha, {t Degas equal ardor. and, J pass ally paicd ite feanee, ugh of ep and returued to its 1 elapsed since this aw fat eon: Place it would be py must be remerb: red carried by the fleete Yer the ovent hus rier is wth reaches ia ngth of its aed, aa it uous to guces from the be Ineesonge 1» ey found to wo apeeten the on up There was cowsed by dark Lines, wiicn A « there er in which tour bri there, according to the canok of Interpretstic ey wnod, indicaled that sowie. iwi 9 (oF gaps) was also pouring out its Tigut fF Foriuee of the ork. Two of (he linc wpelted out hydragen in the spec- } (ral language, What te other two magnified did wot then appear; naa o four steaks | were Wrizider than the peetrom, the source from which they came mast vbyi bow mare y hoated than the ande parts, or photosplere, from which to normal stel Jor Hehe proereded. And ae the star famed up, war i not a natural «up j haa enyrapped burnt whieh, in eon of had been in prodi: then, combini W other h weatestrophe it 4 own globe nay a if a word ( few momen deinig on tie cle welt Mi we recard it as t fs imposmitl to think wrhout the nusncrouK gloves arom L At wheimed by Unit sudden aciuge of ight when ov aud calorie, scaliinisinnss The San and the Barth—Carieus Indwence September 1, 1859, shortly before aon, two mere—Mes re, Hodesoa and Carrineton—one Onford t other In Londen, were at tie ma @ JoKtan! sort iDiing @ large EFUUp OF MUN svOT. OM fn sudden, two inter Dright patehos of Hi ht ap. peared In front of the closwer, So brilliant were they Gat the observers thought the dwkening serene attached tO their Wlescopen must tuted. But this was found not to b cane, ‘The bilght spots ing op upon the sun's feco—a proce vity that within five nrlnutes the over a apace of neatly thirty. Now, at the Kew tif vedo Duugnetie uebune cmees oF cnange by wien the subtle rental magnetivm Wax ant wane, At line (raced by tne wil be marked seavcely perceptible wu ws indicating the mont quiescent tte of wt terrestrial murnet At another, woll warced waved ulong the Ine ex- hibit the pulsations OF the magnetic ryotend, ine enced i & manner af yet nnintelsigible to. the plays reat. thea tere im a third form of disturbance —ti. . sudden jerks of the pointer eahiviting rm renee Of tivee Puen one na mysterious Wuen the records of wrined “ magnetic sto tre Kew Observatory came to be looked over, 1f wan found that at the very instant in which the Dritiant spots of Lebt had app dared to Messrs, Hodgson und Carrington, the sel-regiateriog instruments ted beew euhy to the dd most. significant tori of dasturbanee. @ maghetie storm begun, ka fet, us Le light broke oubon the sun's suriuce, But tie was notthevnly eviuence of the sympathy with which the carth responded WO the roine aetic Tt wae sup. s.quently found Uutroon ater te spot ot guts bod appeared the woo fraine of i tarilicd under a myster-ons vag: etic in flue: At the West Indien tolcgr ipbla, the sigh In Norway, teh graph The pow of pain’ ue. Al ere all, ‘The great o stantaneous © cory night ell while the #orm was yet im pro cress, Duriug the wi Mt manificent auroras spread thelr auth tn the Ne hemisphere, As the dist edie Vabraled, Wwe colored streamers ways Whe (ne Wagaeue te iaded (Poin ident thay these ples oa upate relit on bewween huews cular disturbarees im the sun and the magnetic rents of our owe earth, Directly one ot ti changes take place upward of 000,000 of mils away, the electric cond. ie changed in some mysleriour way, Of Which Our Li sur aud evea ty conlition of our #ky bear recor pene of ali cur tele-ruphic wives tay sowe d in flame a bund wring more ominous oF bumin des Gny than was die handwriting welch duriag Hel wiuezar's feast Uraoad a wacuing on the Wall of Hall of the baby.oniin dynasty, “Moreover, note ilils, that thee changes im the eandition of the sua bike lace at intervals Of abOUL even Years, Tae vari ie star Which xWings Found if, aH Well as sUDpIy Ug us With ght and heat, aid (apy arentiy) magnetisny, Is OVER CVErY BlOViN Yours Liewe AYOKS, BO tue It we Most Akely Gal Overy cheven yours verti etic COMUILIE have bot occured eine eval of 1X) w of lurwe mext year—an we Wray WUAL May OF May Bot ecu W Even now one Auch epoch sevins to be ought prety newr at ba Xbibibime the Host KuEPEIAINg Lorius nd presonting ty scioulilic een leer Sputs 80. Vast that Hs10K8 by willLONE 61 OM Lime bo Laue, unc cscuted rapid changes of figure the action of forecs of ikeuw Clusters oF smaller spots exten ing over yet vant ve exmbited every form of divturba co known to the solir physicist, and every degree of Hight, from the apparent blackness #2 really only relative) Of Hg Aucith, ty the the facuious ridges, Aud we HOW know Ut th appearances are not werely matters for the curiow with whieh, 4s tary huppen at « distance of buy Linely inuilous of miles, practical men need corn Unumseives, Fight between a Dog and a Wexset Wennel a Lynx, From the Hochester Democrat, June 10 Tuesday aficraoon an exerting aud unique bat ton toe promises of A. Gre nod) In KoUN® house. 0 fo'the door yard by the excited auti Green, # lad oi five years, who pitching nto ® _uod-sized 'Weanel, 4s Mi Supposed, With a stick. ‘Lhe beast saawed 1 to forsake the eld for sucu ao antago: oven nati cee ee ae tector aa of Me tw> | Ty arom ered even when Un aay had lnc | bate, whnle it wan evidently Intended to operate with the | MINK gent grew intentoly exciting, the lady de with an the certiflestes of the ¢ nd ieweo, Hock Island, Pacific Railroad ing this plan into operation and to the Tombs, on serlp before being taken ww the cells, The paper was suosequently found in the Tombs Police it wae being cleaned at night, The wh however, also ¢ prisoner, When brought up yesterday and examined, the prisoner stated that is name was George A. Ab dott, New’ York, and having no prosent occupation. He pleaded Rot guilty,” but was committed without bail om the two charges of forging the two cartifi- cates of stock, vet ascertained what bas become of the Pacitio Mail certificate, or others in which he hes been dabbling, A very large wamver of infuential mea from the Wall ‘street region were present yesterdny to wate that the prisoner hs nont afloat vaper of a forged character ideoting the proceedings. a 1t 1 sus} jock. ‘The arrest on the laiter uewday, he aged to drop the Michigan Central Kailroud Pp ourt je of been cleverly aged 38, born in New Hampshire, realdent of It is feared what other sir ilar cor. Uftcates may be floating ou the market, as it le not the air wits & stick, the agile litt ly avoiding the blows, whea a new appeared, the bouse dog, a dote ran of unnumbered batue on the mysterious etra animal was more Wan el, tor when Laat crem ture Lind whetted his teoth and tumbet bis previ ary tall signalling, lie aprigntiy: Litie enemy had durted andcr and over und ia tuot ail about the dis- gosted mastitt t bis wecth und claws Were mo wateh for las ep v's eek ve ‘Phe astute canine, seeing the hopelessness of this style of action, resolved on ® stratazem OF Immense intricacy, Atlveling great (mskiness and triendl: curiosity, he agitated bis caudal appendage wiih delirious cordiahity, tuerby soping to Jory bis wars oppor “ast, evidently nwccustomod to the snares of caninity, and sapeeialy, Yamkse car ¥, umicably lowered lis colors, a bushy canada, ‘and sign tied 1 to enjoy ly lélo-a tele, Tie canine wtratogisl, apy rise @ succees of his astute device, cuyly and Kruce- oved backward, lng irwudly ib Of the el, e canine ¥ lantly bore dé Even for the dox th sully hundreds of Wousaude of im various kindy of | UPH ad weasel, « yh A soos, Se ae drew seit ym the riful rogue, Greeley baw gone South, but nor for | 20 inelintly clone lis awe. imal, winch Potten Fred combat dca sen ak th ue oF Mr From tia Tinea. HF not aly . So ur no oni Horace Grecley's trip to the South, it now ap- | to Mentity It» specion, but. It probably in x ives rs, bas no political aienificance whatever, that animal by seen frequently in the vicinity Mes i a, to Virginie and North Girotine Of the river, ‘Wisewell, on news Piaowei is the President px t bonveny of New ellendighany sexplenstion of Rosecrans’s nom- ‘ork cupitalista, and whe are teegely, in | ination for Obio, ie to the efiees that ai land ie ot i | tines word te his— were mag 4 oy te s teat, it but fH or x Havel a aot otaea, ee wane ‘Repabliean candidate, SUNDEAMS. —— —Mrs, Stonewall Jackson bas just received bequest of $10,000. —Along the outer boulevards of Paria steam. care are now running without ratis on macaaamized roues. =M. Thiers spent $4,000 on bill-posting im Paris previous to his electan as deputy daring the reeent lrction, +The Boston Dost thinks the poor quality of | the Bt, Lous water iy no argument against the re moval of the capital there, in view of the small quam» tity Congressmen drink, —Alice Cary, the poetess, reports an income OF #1180; (ara Loulse Ki iloge, the p tony $4,030; Maxgie Mitchell, tho "Cricket," $1,0885 Florence, the comedian, $2025; Barney Wiiams, the Trish actor, $3,106, —The Kev. Mr. Purebas, the renowned Rite Shst of Brighton, Kneland, haw added to the wom derful ceremonies already introduced into bie Church that of “rubbing black powder on the mem» bers of the congreration.” =<During the « id quarter of the present yeas the city of Paris le consumed 605 horses, or about 278,000 pon nds net of horveftesh for the threo monthe, A lew mucsand donkeys are included ta the quane Lity, but the cxaet ammber t¥ not aneeifled. Womun ata dispensary applied for medical aid, stating fer dtcose to be the flirtation of the heart. “Not an ancommon ailment with your sex, ma'am," #aid the doctor, with a twivkle of the ayog “bat it ts not dangerous if the proper remedy 1 ape plied.” Tho British Museum has recently como into pomession of an cxquis witigne bronze fixnee, two and a half fect in height, and in excellent preserve om. Tt he! to the Maer oulan period, and te enpposrd to hove formed part of agroupof Cupid and Ganym —The following notice was found pasted on & lunge box which passed over the Sioux City and Pee cltie Railroad u few days since: “ Dagenge smashere are req 1 to handle this box with eure, as {t com taing nitro-glyeerin cok fhe, gun-eotron, and two live coriliag.” ‘Tae box was not broken —Sea sickness hi en introduced upon the ma farce cailed “The Chops of the Channel! ow performing at the Strand Theatre, Londoa, Phe intrigue ts conducted in the Intervas between fparms of sickn d the humor depends upon tha fun to ve rxtrae n pia he dele ful —Moss arly supposed to con speein are si clous formations penetrated with fron taring the form of m: found along th tiles from cream 8, vines, trees, & . are Union Pacie road at points for 300 Hoyenne westward, ‘The ucates are tue most highly pried, —The Marquis of Towashend, an enthusiastie but erratie philanthropist, has introdnesd « bil inte Parliament masing tt unlawful for anybody but a arent to box a chiid’s ears, and generuly to permit no corporal punishment of cuildron exceot that time-honored method of Mugging known to Baglish youth under the name of“ bursting." —A gontiewan writing from the home of White tier ways: “Among We amusing incidents which the quiet ot this country home was that af the cail of « gentleman who professed the greatess admiration for Mr, Wuuticr, declaring that he ad made w study of tis writings; bat through the whole interview he addyeesed bim aa Mr, Whitte- ker, Sueh is faine.” —Miss Gertrude Mann, at Advian, Mich., how turned out» walker, Sie walked twenty-live miles (he other aay im 61x bourse aud thirty-three minutemy und, not being fatigued, she wanied to go on and make Ofty ullen, but ber i uds disnuaded hor, Ne Previous novice was wven of the performance, and the feat was as unexpected as it was novel, OL everybody went to see her, Weston being among the spectators, —A Missourian informed a traveller, who ime quired about his corn, that cach stalk had vine care on it, aud Was Mfteen feet high. 'Phat's nothing to our corn,” replied the travetter, “ Up in Lilmois, where I came trou, we alway tad mine eam teach stalk, anda peck of shelled corn hanging to each tagsel; tut wo could never ruise any fleld Deane with it “Why rt “ Beeause the corn grew e@ fant that it always pulled the beans up.” There is a boy of 16 yours of ago in Black- awk esouty, Lowa, whose futher died three yeare Ao, levving Lis widow amd » eighty acre® form burdencd with a $1,000 mortause, He bus taken sole ce of the farin, paki off the mortegge, parohused veater, a sulky plough, a wagon ant a set of besides an $4 sewing machine for hie Mi is now oUt oF debt, He is a member of cultural Society, and atteude vcbout three month cach winter, —The London Spectator, uiluding to the successes ful laying of tho Hench Adaatic Cable, “Phere ore now tires OF these Huesin working ore blue and. mother, the Co der, By the time tuere are thirty, M. Router will probably ve ready to give the public a little now ommerclal news irom the States, where they pube lish every morning whole coluimus af news (rom Kurops. Our press te rapidly becoming the leust apirited in the world, aud eubanis to anybody who rs to save It Sixpence." --A Washington correspondent rays in a recent letter: Rovert Douglas, son of the great Senat ind private averctary of toe President, is a short, round-louldered, uneaiily looking fellow, who Wears a palin-leaf fuw and a eane, the watter much too loag and thick for such # Hitle body, reaching up to the sccond bution on his shirt front. Roberte speecher cannot be caited w wuccess as yet, but Tam told that he is a very kind, amiable young gentle. man, end really has tany traits to remind of hig father, Te dischaiges ins duties well, aud draws (is pay regularly virtues whieh do not always ga hand ip hand logetber--and laa uiunber one sound Re puntican,” —Very fine specimens of the Cuban fireflies have recently doen brought (rom Cuba to the natur ralsis of Salem, Mass. ‘bey were brows alive, having been fed on sugar and water The insecte are frow an tne and a quarter 10 two inches long, of dark brown color, and the luminous emanatione istue from kwo spot, apparently upon the head, back of the eyes, bus really situated upon the sidem Of the thorax or middia section of the body, aud upon the abdomen, The hgit ts suficient to allow a pereon to read when the imncet i held near the printed page. Tt is mated that the Hght isso brite hunt as to affect the aight, and when @ person haw looked at the insect for rome thae other ud arte fich«) lights appear of w deep red, —Count de Chuteaavillard, who has just died 1 Paris, was in his day ony of the most brillant mem and dashing equestrians of Brance, It wae he who one day rode up the steps of the Juakey Club (thew at (he corner of the Rae Drowot and Boulevari) and played a gaine of billiards on horsebuek. He rode fer sume time a MORE vielous horse, A friend mud $ “ Ifyou ride that horse threo months linger, PM bet he kills you.” The Count rephed: *What do you het!” © Pwenty-Hve thousand franes.” + Taken," ‘The Count felt In honor hound to tis friend to (he horse vv ry day, and the hurse showed hinwott to he $0 very vicious that the Count had Ins cofia pinde and semt howe, for he Was ware he would re quire it before long. Hix wife (who tnd long heom extremely uney lest hie horse should kill Tim) if her lushand look upon the horse aa dangers a9 sno herself considered him, ne sooner saw © coin phiced in ber husband's dressing-room, Went to the stible armed with « vutr of Pistols and shot the dangerous steed through the head, Ow one occasion the Count was asked by @ friend, a Marquise, to see her to her carrlage, ‘They ro ata bail, Going dowa stairs somebody trod on her dress ond tore 1, whe axked fora pin, ‘The Count took from his searf a dlaironl pin worth $900 and presented it to her, She deulined, si Count, it enurely to vuluabl only objection to the pint word w y" Thte nO sooner Out of the Marquise’s mouth than ne broke off the diamond, threw it out of the neighboring window, and ga her, the guldcn pin t@ tre tn Jerwoy City, At about bali-past 12 o'clock this morning, five was discovered ti Gannon's large tron foundry af Newark a:enue and Brunswick street, Jer y City. The building being constructed of wood, the fimes tad gained such healway that I wee Derned to the ground, with its contents, principally Waluavle patterns, The lose ie supposed to be 10,0000, Wm, Clark, & hand on board wes Teen Se il el A