New-York tribune., 1870-11-03
GENERAL NOTES.

The Philadelphia Bulletin noticing a para
graph Of ours lately on the way which Sunday spent
in Philadelphia, says: "There is denying what I"
here said tho rowdysm that prevails in Phiadeips
on Sundays But the blame for it belongs not to Pha
dephia but to NewYork. Everybody knows that Mayor
Fox was elected by 'rcpeaters' imported from New
York and his va and ponce ce are al fbs ~
the next election" We hope the good citizens OF the
Quaker City may succeed in accomplishing TINS desrapa
end. And though have ineradicabe objection 70
repeaters" we should scarcely be II Phiiadephls
would return the compliment BY helping us 10 put nohes
men in our own municipal high places.
The many-lived heroes of the yellow covers
80 dear 70 contemplatve butcher-boys and pensVs
kitchen maids seem literal prototypes for new and po
turesqo character OF Western civilization. The deedh
dOings, and darings OF "Jim" Curry hero OF TINS
type, crOwdng the columns OF the western jour
nas and trying the narrative resources ofthe Wbdwooo
reporters Tho murderous forays OF Quantrel OF rear
full memory, and Hidebrand the Missouri outlaw, seem
but the passing vagai,s Of ingenious and msdrected
hterrantry in comparison with the bloody epic o,
this modern Duva The genesis Of "Jm not definitely
or more which time it known, beyond any question
that he has murdered more than fifteen men en- ana ys
women. His stamping-groun are between the Dordeu
and the wlds OF Colorado, where at best mus
Gle more nor E resPGfd P2Grs @9 an se S
Gates natural bent fer blood for when the rag
be was ss not seemy in their sight he
the eOns Of sheridan and Cstar and rode the plains 70
satisfy his murderous lust in the blood OF the Indians
This pleasing diversion ended the mder excitement oi
occasional itc-taklng again resumed In the settle
Incns and a time he has pursued his career, killing
mostly his kind and therefore not materially tiouD
a time nnmoicsted. Fear however Las finally allied
with evaporation at the recent depredatons OF this
spOTtive eXpermenter in blood and with the awful cat
0gue of four women murdered In their beds az Ella
wa-h, at Hays City, and two more women AZ
to execute vengeance on the -.n,1tsr, who however,
seems 10 have escaped for q time.
The Art of Upholstering Meeting Houses
continues absorb good deal Of the time and attention
of Church weekes and to excite the eloquence and
ingenuity OF the rtualistc" Sort Being ourselves BY
no means erudte in such matters we read essays
with modest wonder and even a kind OF awe. For ex
ample, here is a critical may say 9sthetical, review
of the opening Of the Church of St. Thomas in this
city the 9th ult We told that the Beata Urbs
magnhcently thundered forth by both priests and
choir" which most wickedly Of course) reminds us Of
that sinner, Lord Byron's
From peak peak the latlng crags smOng
Leaps the live thunder"
Then pictures and figures of saints" and
neced with the Church, down to the Sexton" Why
"down," We asks 1t seems to us that the Sexton is
very necessary and, in fact indispensable parsonage
Aluaion to the Building Committee Is also censured
very unfairly think for this Building Committee had
with its properly cOOred antependium, standing
base five steps above the level OF the nave" Now, II tho
altar had been six steps above tho naves level it would
have right enough have treated the Committee
with severe and cOntemptuous silence; but as they
share of the glory. "Thrtysix lights burning in the
chance at midday reminds OF the homely adags
about burning daylight But this writer is most fully
delighted by the music. He says that when he heard
the harp and flute" he thanked God and took
age" from which We infer that before this, he in
depressed mental and, perhaps bodily condition. Tho
reader will please observe that this merely an open
ing" The church couldn't be "consecrated because IL
is not Finished" Wherefore, this ceremonial was
special land limited" What the general and unlimited
ceremonial will be hardly conjecture; but con-
sdering that their services still required wasn't
perfectly proper to encourage the Building Comntteet
We ask the question tmdy-we are not learned In these
| matters.