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rev 4. u. Parsons, d u. "
Prot. " Joues, Jc, MD LID, London, Eng.
sir A Moore, Md, "
Prof. DePfaR, Md, Paris.
/" Pulaski Kadesk, ND, Vienna.
DR.. JONES has a case OF 30 different kinds OF
medicines with him, comprising the pest from
every part CT the world, with which he cures
that aflict both sexes and persons OF every age.
without any Inconvenience or neglect of
business.
CrOas-Fyes Made Straight and Natural.
This operation can be performed in all cases
without fail, and Prof Jones viii do 1t sue
c~essfully in old or young.
HOSlS. or Nervous Blindness, skilfuly
treated.
Surxery.-Cataraet operated for, Artificial
Pupil, Enoanthus, EXcsntnus, Ptosis, Ptery-
GUM, Neevi Tor mothers mark removed. Tu-
moTs in the Eye OF har removed. Cancers eZ
tracted. Hernia Tor rupIurej and Clun Foot
successfully operated upon. enlarged TOnsiis
lneised, (cut) with improved instruments for
that express purpose. Hare Lip operated ior
and the defHTmity removed. SiillettOes intro
duced for FIstuia LaZhrymsiis COR watery eye.
L-aryngotomy and al ditieulJand delicate Ope-
ratiOns in surgery performed or hand VIII
skill and the most improved Instruments. DIT.
Jones believes his Instruments are superior 10
those of any surgeon in the United States, and
are in keeping with the mechanism and sci
encs OF the age, and give him a decided advan-
tags in ali difficult operations over other good
surgeons, not one in a thousand OF whom Pos
se=s such a useful, n OdeIn, anu magnificent
case of costly surgical tools.
OFOKkHtEA, or discharge or the Ears,
whether caused by Scarlet Fever, Mease.s
Scro.uIa, Cold, or anything else, IS cured by Dr..
Jones in old or young, and the hearing restored
or benefited. TwO-tniTds of the cases of total
DEAFNESS m ght be prevented II this disease
were not so shamefully neglected.
L STANDING Disc Asses can be pre-
seribed 1oT at once by DE-. Jones, and the patient
can use The remedies at home. And all opera
tons are performed Immediately before the
patient leaves the Doctor. All who are afflicted
shouid come prepared 10 have such treatment
Immediately as they may need.
az Resd DR.. Jones advertisement relating 10
the cure of diseases OF the Lungs and Throat
In another part Of this paper. ia3l
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FINANCE AND FRADE.
OFFICE OF TIE DAILY ASfs-
MKMPHIs. February % l"S'
FINANCE.


The money market was fairly ac'LVe
to-day, and currency was in good Gs
maud for the purchase Of cotton DIM
were offered in larger sums than iot .
week back, and the currency when n@s
been lying comparatively ldle IL GU
bank vaults for 3 few days will agsla re,
sumo its position in line q 90 oOWA.u
a~llsviating one Of the many longings d
the trader, the spectator or the planter
The transactions in exchange are no"
about ali that there is doing in the way
OF money matters. ard comprise me
bulk of business at our banks during TINS
season. The fluctuations in cotton arr
watched as closely, therefore, by TIE Of
fcers Of our discount houses as oy the
factor. Rates are as follows, with oecs-
sional exceptions to favored enstomsrs'
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DETTFTE ID
GASs
HE
ECONOMY BUTTER CO

Ask the attention OF al interested In the re-
uuctiOn OF the eLtravHgaut eUs5 OF Batter. to
their practical and economical system OF max
ing pure prime Butter by Rid Of the
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Pacific Sixe

Very little gold was offered In this
market and dealers kept Up a small mar
gin on New York quotations. Buying
at 1929. Selling st 1880.
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CIECTEEATI.
CITY MILL.
MEMPHIS CITY MILLS.

ah sppsereers having put IN operation
thelr new MlDi on the alley east OF Third
street. between Poylar and Exchange. are pre-
pared 70 farDtSh FINE WAITE ByLTFD
CJkN MEAL in any quantItv. FEED OF
ALI Kinds GROUND as desired. AID on
hand for sale. This being a HONE MANU-
EACIOkf, a share OF pn5iic patronage is so.
iielGe1. Lane q BRO
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Trust SALE.
TRHSTER,S SALE.

DY virtue OF a Deed Of Trust executed 70 me,
ID as Trustee, by James 3. NOOds. on the ISth
September, 1864, and duly recorded in the Regis
ter'R OGios Of shelby county Tennessee. in
Book No. IS, part ID, pages =, 3andA wilton
Thursday, the 25th February, 1869,
Between the hours OF 10 o'clock an, ard z
O'clock m, in the city OF Memphis, Ia front OF
the office OF kOrtrscht q Graft. No 81 south
Court street, proceed 70 sell, &C pub ic suction
to the highest bidder, for cash, the following
lots OF parcels OF ground, IN shelby county
Tenn, in said Trust Deed, described as fOIOWs.
tO-wit Being part OF Lot no J. IN BOOK q
in south Melnpnis, beginning At a point "a
feet from the junction II H-rnando street and
Browns avenue, on the east eide OF aeTnanoo
street thence south win fernando street 33Zs
feet: thence e~eEtwardly at right angles with
Heruando street lU feet thence north ia
fset thence westwaraiy lG feet to The begin
ming and also another iob or parcel OF said
LOt No. Block A., beginning a. the northeast
corner Of the above described lot thence esat-
wardIy 80 1tst, more or 70 8. to a stake on an
alley : thence ~OuthTardly sd feettoa stake
themes w~sstWardiy with the north line OF the
Fptseopal church lot 81 feet. more or less, To q
stage at the southeast corner Of Gne lot ABOVE
described and hence n~erthEardly 51a leet %
the beginning corner. Equity Of resumption
Is waived
The title 20 the above property IS Believed 10
be good, but / sell and convey only as Trustee.
fspl4 CHARLES kOREkECHf, Trustee.
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INSURANCE.
CAPITAL, 600
Security, by Law OF Stare OF Ohio.
So 900.
ENTERPRISE
COMPANY,
On rHT@TlT

THOaAs sHERLOCK, President
nTRECT0RS B.. N. Bishop of B. N.
IL Bishop & Co.; TheO. Cook, Of Ba. Zer, bart
q Cook Joseph q. Butler, President L lafayette
Bank L. R Hull, OF Addy, HUI & CO. A =.
Winslow, OF WinslOw q smith Charlie Eule'
ofC. Rule & Coleman Adolph a GOD, of AAdoiph
Wood q Co.; John ShiIlitO, OF john SIN Tito 2
Co: A d. Bullock, of a. ID. Bullock q Co.; d..
Woodrow, OF Woodrow, Means q Co; A len
Collier. OF John Swasey 4 Co.; L A. Harris, ex-
Glenn q Sons.
W.. NJ. RICHARDSON, ". B.. cassidy,
Secretary. Vtce-Pres't.
]. DEWALDEN CHURCHILL. Supervisor.
q. Y. VHEDE1EUHGH AGENT.
nov26 No ~ Madison ST.. Memphis, Tenn
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NURSERY.

Shelby Nursery.
A PPLES and Peach trees, DC each sI5 per
"a AWi $40 per 100. Pear, Plum, Cherry,
ApicOs and Almond trees, SOC each. Concord
9fape Vines, so per 100; 500 per 1860: $50 per
bO0. Otner articles prOpOrti0nsbly low.
Best sh piping facilities by Express oF freight
trains. Address KUN & BLEDSJE.
febi7 Coinerylne, shelby county, Tenn.
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FOR 1 N BLUFF
FOR ST. FRANCIS RIVER.

FOR ST. FRANCIS RIVER.
Memphfsa and SO. FrsEefs River Tuesday
g
For Helena, Mariana, Madison and Wittsburg.
The new and elegant sIdewheel Passenger
racket,
SAINT FRANCIS,
Capt. T. r. Bowman, = = Sam g. PANE, clerk
ITILL leave Memphis for HEL .lA
w ENA, L'ANGUILLEand ST. - EGs
FRAhCIs RIVERS every TUESDAY at 0
o'clock pm.
LARRY HARMSTAD, Agent,
feblg No. ~ Madison street.
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LAGER BEER.
WATCHES.
WALTHAM
w

II extensive use of these watches for the
last hfteen years by Railway Conductors, En-
gineers and Expressmen, the most eKacllng Of
watch wearers, has thoroughly demonstrated
the strength, steadiness, durability and accu
racy of the Waltham Wstcn. To satisfy that
class in al these respects, is 70 decide the ques-
ton as TO the real value OF these time-keepers
The superior organization and great extent
OF the Campany's Works at Waltham anable
them to produce watches combining the best
and latest improvements. and at a prics which
renders competition futile, and those who buy
any other watch merely pay from IS to so per
cent more for their watches han is necessary.
81 F0R SALE By l.
70 No watches retailed by the Company
ROBBINS & APPLETON.
General Agents,
ls2 Broadway, New York.
febs mon Yed@fz
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BANKRUPTCY.
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Districr OF West Tennessee. IN Bankruptcy.
Al Memphis. Tenn, SIN day OF February, 1853.
The undersigned hereby gives nct1ce OF Dis
appointment as assignee OF J. W a Jones'
OF Shelby county, and State Or Tennessee,
within said District. who mas been ad3udged a
bankrupt upon his own pstiuon. by the Dis
trict Court OF said District
o. WOODBRIDGE,
seb9 IL q Assignee.
In the District Court OF the United states, for
the District OF West Tennessee. NE mat
ter OF a. P. Tuck, bankrupt.
To the creditors Of the above named Bankrupt :
Take notice that a general meeting Of tha
creditors OF said nkTu will be held az tns
/ once Of 7. j. Latham. Esd. Register, IN The
| city OF Memphis, in said District, on the AStn
! day OF February, A. D.. p69, a. 10 O'Clock an
/ for the purpose Of declaring 3 hrst and nnal
dividend.
/ also give notice thatI have dled my final
| accounts ~ assignee of the estate OF said BANK
/ rspt in said Court, and that on the 18Th Gay OF
March, 1853, ! shall apply % said Court ior me
l settlement of my accounts, ana Tor q dsenars9
1 from al liability as Assignee Of said estate IN
accordance with the provisions OF the 2th sec
ton ofthe act Of Congress, entitled an Act 20
establish a uniform system OF bankruptcy
Throughout the United States, approved
WI. Y erode Assignee.
MEMPHIS. TEEE-, January 2. lS& 5a2
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FOR Z POINT.
ana Hates Point PacAet,

~ A%CSb-4 44d9bC4
tTILL leave Memphis for Halls IL
w Point and all way Lauding5
EVERY MONDAY IHUR DAY.
AppIvo on hnar1. 1ehl
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BANKS AND BAEINKG
GERMAN NATIONAL BARK
OF MEMPHIS.
DIE 8 :

DIR
LOUIS HANNAUER, OF Scheduled & Han
nauer;
JOHN p. HoEFMANN, OF Mitchell, Hoffmann
IL 20
y. I. MADDEN. of D. p. MADDEN 4 Co.;
M. l.. MEACHAM, of Meacham q TreadWel (;
A. ]. HARRIS. OF Harris, Cochran q Co.;
Il. P. WALT, OF R-P. Wall 4 20.
J. q. NEELY, OF Brooks & Nicely.
OFFICERS
LOUIS HANEAUkR, President
Ii. L. KEACHAA, VIce.PFesideng
hAkFlN GkaEE4f, Cashier
HORACE e. GARfH, : Assistant Cashier
"a Exchange GU aii parts Of h United
states and Europe bought and Sold. Jazz
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KIssissIppi and Tennessee Railroad.
ARRIVE. DEPART.
New Orleans Mail, daily-.-..S:i5 p.m. 4:l5 pm
New Orleans Express, daily
except Sunday-.--.-.....S:S0 am. S8 am
Freight, daily except sun
ay...-....-----~--- -.....---3O0 pm. o.o Am
Time through to New Orleans q hours. Rag
gage checked through. Ticket ONCE 2Sz5 Main
street and at Depot. OmniDuses Will call for
passengers aud cheek baggage in any part OF
the ely, by leaving orders at 1914 Main street.
febA A. s. LIYERMORE, Gen1 Supt
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
To MADISON AND LITTLE Rock, ARK.
Going West-Lesve Memphis Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday, at J Am.
Coming East-Leave adison Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday, at 7:3O am. Arrive al
Memphi at l o'clock pm.
3. B. BEAUMONT.
oc2 General superintendent.
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The Economy Butter Company.
Omce-I15 LIBERTY STREE
Factory-2se n TREEr N. Y.
State, County and City Rights for sale, offer
ing to Capitalists rare opportunities for estab-
fishing q staple business, paying enormous
profits.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
Mississippi and tennessee Railroad.

Ticket Offices No. 2S7H Main street and at De.
cot, head OF Main street.
HAM.B ID, IONEs. 9enHsup't.
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NemphIs and LIttle ROck RaIIrOa
RIVER MATTERS,
AND RIvEKs.

L. IL y ~ ny
Monday night was the coolest of the
season., and yesterday morning would
have been considered pleasant in Lap
land, Greenland or near the North Pole.
1t was very cold, indeed, with the ground
frozen hard. It thawed during the day,
but again froze last night. The river Is
nearly at . stand at this point, n is
now = feet - inches below high water
mark. The Arkansas is falling slowly,
IS is also White river. Our midnight
dispatches give the latest news from all
points above.
Arrivals.
Steamer City Of OF Alton, st. Louis.
" Dexter, Louisville.
" Cora s., Arkansas river.
Mississippi, New Orleans.
Departures.
Steamer Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
" Mississippi,
A." G.. W. Cheek, OsceOls.
" Cora s., Cincinnati.
Natoma, Friar's Point.
Leni LsOti, Arkansas river.
81. Francis, ST. Francis river.
MARITIME, " 4"
D S Arc, White river.
City of Alton, V~icksburg.
Dexter, New Orleans.
Guidon, Arkansas river.
In Port.
Darling and Guidon.
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oRANCERx SALE.
HALE

IN WEpN EsBAY MARrH "a 1859. CHAN
~ Gerry COURT OF MEMPHIS.
No. 8Ig5 Harriet J. Register, adm'x.s vs. S. Z.
Register et al.
ny virtue of an interiOcutOry decree Ia this
Is esute. i will sell, at public auction, TO the
highest bidder. in front Of The auction house
OF Roystsr. Trezevant & &C., in the city Of
Memphis, tennessee,
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sKvRNTH WARD-EngIne House.

Judges-J. D. Wimherly, Martin Kelly and P.
M. ID crimson. Cierks-n. E. Hoy and Jonn
{. Bridges. JANE RYAN,
Deputy Commissioners.
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EIGHTH wARD-Market house.
NrNTH wARD-Briek Church.

Judges-D. Pante, N Holt and John Quinn.
Clerks-J. w. Murray and G.C Bessen.
s. ~. WILKINS,
Deputy Goa missioner.
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Dtstrict OF West Tennessee. IN Bankruptcy.
Al Msrnphls Tenn, Sth day Of February, 1853.
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TENTH wARD-BalIey's Chureh.

Judges. D. Danbury, d. z. Goldsmith and
John Cubbins Clerks-F. Q. Scbaper and "
Deputy Commissioners.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-15
AUSPICIOUS OMENS.

One of the most interesting events OF the
times is the reunion now happily effected be-
tween the conflicting Jurisdictions OF one OF
the most influential Christian denominations In
the United States. The ceremonies were impress
siye and their influence was far-reaching-far
indeed beyond the Assemblies and the
"Schools" more Immediately cOncerned-and
affecting not merely a single Sect or section,
or nationality, but the whole Christian world that
has been so long scandalized by the discOrd on
such question among so large a number OF
American professors of religion. Whatintelligent
persons could witness those ceremonies, what
religious and patriotic minds can now hear of
them, without feeling that the division and re-
union of that important sect are portions OF
the awful tragedy that cOnvulsed the nation
with long years of warfare, deluged the
land with blood, and sacrificed hundreds of
thousands of livesY
The schism in the Presbyterian and Metho-
dist Churches was one of the glOomest har-
bngers of national wO. The distinctions Of
South and North in those influential sccts fore
Swallowed the political CONFUSION that threat
ened destruction to our National Union. AS
such widespread and powerful religious de-
NOMINATIONS Spilb VII thO iONh VI D'"'
many of the truest patriots doubted for while
about the possibility of preserving the Ship OF
State amid the storm which thus wrecked the
unity of Christian churches. And well might
they doubt the continuance of political unity
when armed conflict between the South and
North was accelerated as well as foreshadowed
by sectaran descriptions flowing from the same
accursed cause.
The baneful influence of sectarian divisions
on that old, vexed question should now be
counteracted by uncommon efforts for pro-
noting religious. social, and political advance
ment, in the path of which these divisions
were stumbling block. Above all, the
example of reunion presented by the Pres
byterian Church should not be lost on the
other great sect whose divisions exerted a like
baleful influence on the religious and political
condition of the nation. The Methodsts,
North" and South" owe it to their God
and their country to bury their feuds in
the grave of the now obsolete institution"
that occasioned them and which their ven
Grated patriarch denounced as the sum Of all
"yillainesp
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER l5 1853.

ize IL. The wages of the tailoress are not so far
below the tailOr's as are the tailOr's below the
lawyers. And yet lawyer and tailor bOlh have
the ballot and in this city, at least, the tailor
has the upper hand. But the difference of
wages between the sex which works for wages
continuously and inevitably, and that which
works exceptionally and occasionally, is one
which voting alone cannot mend.
But one thing, at least, women can effect.
They can train their daughters to do thor
oughly whatever their hands find to do. 80
strongly does this habit of superfciallty attach
to the work of women that even the leaders
of emancipation hardly get beyond 1t. 10 Is
but few days since we heard two persons
prominent in the wOman's suffrage movement
admit with regret that there is not yet a
woman in the country who is fitted to preside
over q difficult convention. And this, not for
want Of dignity, nor of presence, nor OF tact,
but simply because not woman has as yet
taken the pains to master those simple rules OF
parliamentary law which are to be found in any
small text book on the subject. These rules are
to a public meeting what military drill
is TO an army-the only means OF keeping
it from confusion Jean Paul says that no
female general would ever give the plain
command, "Haltm but she would say, " All
"you people, as soon as have done speaking,
81 command you all to stand still in your
"places; halt tell your No person can have
read the reports of the stormy meetings OF the
Equal Rights Association in this city, last
Spring, without perceiving that nine-tenthS OF
the trouble could have been prevented by
competent presiding officer. Yet Mrs. IL. b. Stan
ton is a woman of unquestioned ability, and has
been steadily attending conventions for twenty
years. 1t is for the sake of women themselves
that we wish to see this want of thOroughness
corrected. "Young men exhOrt to be sober
minded" saith the Scripture "Young women
exhort to be business minded" say we.
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That the switch-tendcr on the Western Pa
cific Railroad, whose astounding carelessness
and misinfomation yesterday led to the terri
bic accident in which thirteen pas
sengers were killed and from thirty
to fifty wounded, is directly re-
sponsible for this slaughter, and should be
duly punished therefor, would seem, on the
statement of facts which the telegraph fur
nishes us, sef-evident proposition. And
vet we insist that there may be a wider
responsibility and a graver crminallty.
If there are inventions which are capable of
preventing by means of self-acting and self
registering switches or otherwise, this fruitful
source of accident the railroad companies
which fail to introduce them, and thus expose
their passengers to such perils as yester-
days brutal mangling illustrates, deserve to be
themselves held to a rigorous account. We say
nothing IN favor of any special invention. We
only insist that the Patent Office has given us
reason to hope that means are within ready
reach of every railroad for etfectually prevent
ing accidents from misplaced switches; and
that it is the duty of railroads to test these in
ventions, and, If found valuable, to introduce
them at whatever cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-15

"a Chapter of the Brooklyn Frauds in
another column deserves the thoughtful atten-
ton of those who take an interest in the
practical working of republican government
in the great city over the river. We in New
York, who live under the shadow of Tammany
Hall, are getting tolerably well used to being
cheated, so that we take it as matter of
course, and in making an estimate of probable
results, on entering upon canvass here, only
consider how many of the thirty or forty
thousand fraudulent Democratic votes we can
by extra vigilance keep ont Of the ballot
box. The opinion gains ground among
the thinking and educated classes that our
elections are becoming little better than a
melancholy farce-a predestined swindle. Be
tween New-York and Brooklyn there would
seem to be a rivalry as to which shall excel
the other in the various villainies which, under
Democratic manipulations, are practced at the
polls and in the canvass of votes. AS the
matter now stands. New-Y York. with its dense
population its tenement houses, and its in
Vulnerable dens of infamy, would seem to be
ahead in the matter of repeating, while our
sister city has carried the system of counting
out duly elected candidates to the level of a
fine art --.
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Smnsfmrnts, Gt.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-This Evening at S.-ltalian
Opera: Norma" BuoL
BOOTu's 1HEATER. Twenty third-st. between fl1th
Sth-aveS-Th Evening at 81 Mary Warner Miss Baemau
FFTH-AvE. THEATER. Twenty -fOurth-st. and Filth
Ne-Ths Evening at a." Caste"
French THEATER, Fourteonth-st.-This Evening
English Drama "L0IdOn."
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. cor Eighth-aye. and iW yen
tv,blr3.t-rhis Evening al a-Bugish Opera Mar'~nA N
line Rehings Bernard
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN. corner OF s WIN
thrls anu Winter Exhibition OF F''nuug 'u'
NEw-YoEK CmcUs-This Evening at S-GTana
Programme All Ben Ablalah Troupe Of BeIouu Arabs
.NIpTO's G,EprN-Ths Evening at 8 LiItle
NeUH aud the 'MarehioncsS" LotA
Oty,pIc THEArER.-This Evening at S-"Poor
Humanity" J. X. Mortimer =. ~.
SAN FRANCIsCo MINSTRELs.-lhiS EVepihg'-Mls-
celaneou, performances 49,,
So,frrvuIE ART GALLERY. No - fltth-aVe'-
az H. 'ri EleriHe-E1hihiion Of The Nine Muses.
SrrIxwAY HAII.-This Evening at S.-Mme Anna
B.sbGps second CrauI Concert
TuE IAMMANY.-Ths Evening at s-The Hanlons'
WNLAcK's TnFATER.-This Evening at s.
"uome." Regular Fix" Lester Wallack.
WOODS MUSEUM, Broadway and Ihirtleth-sStt;--
Omen r from m 10 p Two dramatic performances day
Az Tbe Yankee Farmer" Ats, " Aaida'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-15

The system of architectural competitions in
vogue never yet has produced, and never will
produce, thoroughly successful building. The
ordinary run Of vestrymen, bank directors, and
life insurance officers called OH to decide them
generally know as much about the Chinese
alphabet as they do of the principles of true
architecture Are we to reckon the Nestry of
ST. James's Brooklyn, more competent in such
a matter, because they have set some eight or
nine of our leading professional men to work
on plans for their new church, to cost $25O,OOO,
at the remarkable remuneration of $500
each for their preliminary studiesP Some
of our best buildings, as All Souls
Church characterized by THE TRIBUNE two
years ago as, with all its faults, the first
genuine piece of architecture in America,m
the West Presbyterian and Holy Trinity
Churches, and more recently the Temple
Emanuel, on Fifth-ave., and the new St.
Thomas's, were. placed Immediately in the hands
of their respective architects without any
roundabout palaver on the part of the several
committees. When we need a tirst-rate doctor
or lawyer, we ont consult dozen, to know
how each would practice or prescribe. No.,
gentlemen of st. Jamess, if you really mean to
do the fair and square thing this time, call in
the aid of the two most accomplished archi-
tects artistically and constructionally outside
the pale of pure competition, and let the decision
be intrusted to their dsinterested, calm pro-
fessional deliberations. If you attempt it your
selves, A. will go it blind for "his man, and
b. for "his "--even should C.'s protege and plan
have ali the merit of Michael Angelo, Bramante
and Palladio rolled into one