The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-07

Bible societies IN the distribution or the sacred Scrip
lures in the United States
dinner was given by the New York Yacht Club to
Commodore Edwin A. Stevens the occasion of his re-
firing from the command of the squadron Saturday,
when he made the recipient of silver punch bowl
Mr. John O'Mahony, lately tried and deposed by his
Fenian subscribers has issued long circular, palating
late acts and laying certain charges against Killian.
Other official circulars unve the last acts of the Mansion
rulers General Sweeny rally is to OIL tomorrow
evening, in Jersey City, at Franklin Hail. Montgomery
street W. j. Hynes, A. L. Morrison and others will
| speak The Senate meets again to-day
Mrs Davis is still at Fortress Monroe. No limit is
placed upon the length of her visit but she restricted
in her conversations with her husband to tho hours be-
| tween reveie and sunset
It is stated in Washington that negotiations are on foot
for the purchase by leading American capitalists OF
nearly entire of Lower California from the Mexican
republic for the purpose of developing the rich mineral
| resources of that country Over q million dollars have
been advanced to the Mexican Minister in aid Of the
| project
circular has just been issued by Commissioner Ro.
ins of the Internal Revenue Office, at Washington,
which directs and collectors to proceed 70 the
and collection of arising from the sale
Of Stocks &C. by brokers and bankers whether on tner
own account on commission
Henry @. Wheeler the President Of the FIorda and
time ago. the charge of intending to abscond with
hundred thousand dollars worth Of bonds belonging
to tho Pixies Peak Railroad Company. before the
Supreme Court in that city yesterday. The
continued.
The new hospital of the Catholic Sisters of tho Poor in
Hoboken blessed and opened yesterday by Bishop
Bayley.
The crops in Texas in excellent condition. and all
fears of an overflow of Red river have disappeared
Lord John Russell and Our Enfant Terri
BILE" why Should We Not be Friends."
Lord John Russell is a man of excellent senti-
eminently respectable man; SO very respecta-
BILE that it would not at all do, it would be
kind of social outrage, to suppose that he could
be guilty of any act of questionable morality.
He has assured us frequently of his high regard.
He has told us how much he admired our
spirit and paid us the highest Of all the re-
spectacle compliments in declaring that we
were second only to England herself in the
possession of all admirable qualities. His
sentiments were so beautiful and his respecta-
bilty so positive that it would have been the
basest ingratitude in US not to feel how
splendid thing 1t was to have secured his re-
cognition. We felt it accordingly. How could
we have had the moral courage to intimate
that he might not be sincere! We 80 young
and he so respectable. 1t is true that we knew
oil the time he had done things not consistent
with his professed admiration and amity. We
had o thousand good evidences that he hated
us with bitter intensity. But we were 80 over
powered by his responsibility, 80 oppressed by
the gracious condescension of his sentiments
that we never had the heart to speak out
plainly and call him to account, and 80 we
went on in the conventional way. and through
Mr. Seward, who does propriety on our part
we answered Lord Russell's polite paiaver
with pa,aver equally polite and assured him in
the true society style of our distinguished con-
sideratiOn.
But there is o character not to be controlled
by the ordinary usages of society, not crushed
by the dignity of others, never put down by any
reflections on its own insignifcance. This is the
enont terrible. II is creature that is the horror
Of all good society on account of the simple
truths 1t blurts out. No solemn sham is safe
against its childlike simplicity. 1t asks the
splendid lady of fashion if those are her new
teeth, and what she has done with the ugly
ones she had last year. and to please take her
hair of to show how easy she can do it. 1t
tells the elegant fop that the coat he has on
now is prettier than the blue one with patches
on the elbows that he had on last time, and 80
on, exposing with innocent Inconsistencies all
the admirably arranged cheats of the respecta-
BILE people. We have in our American family
q good specimen of this character named Ban
croft. One day we had a party, and among
those invited were some particular friends Of
the emnently respectable man Of beautiful
sentiments Earl Russell. And it happened
that the enfdnt terrible let out in the presence
of these persons all our private family opinions
of the great Earl. 1t was terrible. All our fire.
side expressions were absolutely laid bare to
the world by this indiscreet little gabbler, and
the Earl, who had supposed that our polite ex-
pressions were sincere. learned that We really
saw through all his shams and actually had
the audacity TO canvass his hypocrisy. We
were awfully ashamed it made such n fuss.
But this bad as it was, was not the worst Of
il. The exposures Of an enfdnt terrible are un-
comfortable enough, and people generally show
their common sense by refusing to hear what is
said. will commonly be noticed that when
an e,font terrible has hit upon any particularly
awkward point everybody is looking out Of the
window or lost in rapturous admiration Of
Domenichino, or doubled mp over torso in the
corner so that you hardly attract their atten-
ton. This is polite, and the injured individual
may suppose that no one has heard what was
said Imagine any one stupid enough to answer
the infant terrible, or institnting an argument on
the topic to correct false impressions This Is
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